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Vladimir Nabokov's early novel is the dazzling story of the coarse, strange yet oddly endearing chess-playing genius Luzhin. Discovering his prodigious gift in boyhood and rising to the rank of International Grandmaster, Luzhin develops a lyrical passion for chess that renders the real world a phantom. As he confronts the fiery, swift-swooping Italian Grandmaster Turati, he brings into play his carefully devised defence. Making masterly play of metaphor and imagery, The Luzhin Defense is the book that, of his early works, Nabokov felt 'contains and diffuses the greatest warmth'.

A deep study of the uneasy heart by one of the masters of the psychological novel, "Journey into the Past," published here for the first time in America, is a novella that was found among Zweig s papers after his death. Investigating the strange ways in which love, in spite of everything time, war, betrayal can last, Zweig tells the story of Ludwig, an ambitious young man from a modest background who falls in love with the wife of his rich employer. His love is returned, and the couple vow to live together, but then Ludwig is dispatched on business to Mexico, and while he is there the First World War breaks out. With travel and even communication across the Atlantic shut down, Ludwig makes a new life in the New World. Years later, however, he returns to Germany to find his The Luzhin Defense download book beloved a widow and their mutual attraction as strong as ever. But is it possible for love to survive precisely as the impossible?"

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Author: Vladimir Nabokov,John Updike,Michael Scammell
Number of Pages: 192 pages
Published Date: 31 Mar 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9780141185989
Download Link: Click Here
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