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  The Gambler (Dover Thrift Editions) (Paperback) By (author) F. M. Dostoevsky

  

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  Short Description for The GamblerNarrated by the character Alexei, who is addicted to gambling, this short novel is based on Dostoevsky's own experiences as a compulsive gambler. Like so many characters in Dostoevsky'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 vortex of the roulette wheel.
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  • Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
  • Published: 25 September 1996
  • Format: Paperback 128 pages
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  • Categories: Classics
  • ISBN 13: 9780486290812 ISBN 10: 0486290816
  • Sales rank: 20,751

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Full description for The Gambler

• Psychologically probing novel concerns the gambling episodes, tangled love affairs and complicated lives of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young gambler; Polina Alexandrovna, the woman he loves; a pair of French adventurers and other characters. Bleak picture of the fatal attractions of gambling with wonderful characterization, faithful depiction of gambling life at fashionable German watering holes.