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The Defense

by Vladimir Nabokov

  • 1929
  • ~280 pages
  • 4.0 ★
Originally published in Russian in 1930. Nabokov released an English translation in 1964. The novel is a fictionalized account of chess master, Curt von Bardeleben. The book was made into the movie, The Luzhin Defense in 2000.

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