Name: the gambler
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Author: Fiódor M. Dostoievski
ISBN: 9780393316490

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Physical Book

Author

Fiódor M. Dostoievski

Translated by

Andrew R. Macandrew

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Year

1997

Language

English

Pages

192

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.2 x 14.0 x 1.3 cm

Weight

0.19 kg.

ISBN

0393316491

ISBN13

9780393316490

Synopsis "the gambler"

Its story of passion and despair is based on Dostoevsky's own experience as a compulsive gambler--but Dostoevsky was able to break away, whereas Alexei vows to quit as soon as he breaks even--an event, it is clear, that will never happen. Like so many other characters in Dostoeveky's novels, Alexei is trying to break through the wall of the established order and the human condition itself. But instead he is drawn into the roulette wheel's vortex.

Fiódor M. Dostoievski

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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (Moscow, November 11, 1821-Saint Petersburg, February 9, 1881) was one of the main writers of Tsarist Russia, whose literature explores human psychology in the complex political, social, and spiritual context of Russian society in the second half of the 19th century

He is considered one of the greatest writers of the West and of world literature.

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