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The Gambler
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ISBN10: 1974529282
ISBN13: 9781974529285
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 15 2017
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.35 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781974529285
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 15 2017
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.35 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
The Gambler was written under the pressure of crushing debt. It is a stunning psychological portrait of a young man's exhilarating and destructive addiction, a compulsion that Dostoevsky-who once gambled away his young wife's wedding ring-knew intimately from his own experience. In the disastrous love affairs and gambling adventures of his character, Alexei Ivanovich, Dostoevsky explores the irresistible temptation to look into the abyss of ultimate risk that he believed was an essential part of the Russian national character.
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