200 pages
English language
Published Oct. 8, 1986 by Oxford University Press.
The Defence (Twentieth Century Classics)
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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.
