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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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 164 ● ISBN 9783961123292 ● File size 0.8 MB ● Publisher Re-Image Publishing ● City Vachendorf ● Country DE ● Published 2016 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5256641 ● Copy protection without
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