272 pages
Published June 29, 2000 by Penguin Books Ltd.
272 pages
Published June 29, 2000 by Penguin Books Ltd.
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.