The Gambler

The Gambler - Paperback

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The Gambler - Paperback

The Gambler - Paperback

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
$12.22
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Book Overview

A gambler himself, both at the gaming tables and in life, Fyodor Dosteyevsky's The Gambler was completed in time to keep the author's debts from catching up to him. Had he not met the deadline, Dostoyevsky's work for the next nine years would be published without a cent heading in the writer's direction; luckily, this novella was finished before the due date (with the help of a stenographer whom he would later marry) and would go on to become much adapted into films and even an opera. Dostoyevsky's first-hand experience with the gaming tables of Europe would color the novella with a certain realism that is impossible to forget.
ISBN9781512382235
Author Fyodor Dostoyevsky
PublisherCreatespace Independent Publishing Platform
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedMay 2015
LanguageENG- English
Pages214
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-81) was educated in Moscow and at the School of Military Engineers in St. Petersburg, where he spent four years. In 1846, he wrote his first novel, Poor Folk; it was an immediate critical and popular success. This was followed by short stories and the novel The Double. While at work on Netochka Nezvanova, the twenty-seven-year-old author was arrested for belonging to a young socialist group. He was tried and condemned to death, but at the last moment his sentence was commuted to prison in Siberia. He spent four years in the penal settlement as Omsk. In 1859, he was granted full amnesty and allowed to return to St. Petersburg. In the fourteen years before his death, Dostoyevsky produced his greatest works, including Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed, and The Brothers Karamazov. The last was published a year before his death.

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