The Gambler (Readings Classics)
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Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Categories: Fiction
Pages: 128
Publisher: Readings
Cover: Softcover
Book description :Alexei Ivanovich, a passionate and impulsive young tutor, is an employee of a fallen Russian general. He falls madly in love with the general’s daughter, Polina, and agrees to gamble on her behalf—an act that propels him into the seductive, destructive world of chance and obsession. Inspired by Dostoyevsky’s own compulsive entanglement with roulette and loss, The Gambler is set in a fictional European spa town. It captures the volatility of human desire and the feverish highs and humiliating lows of gambling addiction. Both intensely personal and universally resonant, it stands as a taut and vivid portrait of the allure of risk and the psychological toll it exacts.
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The Gambler (Readings Classics)
The Gambler (Readings Classics)
(NOTE: The Book cover may vary if published by different companies.)
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Categories: Fiction
Pages: 128
Publisher: Readings
Cover: Softcover
Book description :Alexei Ivanovich, a passionate and impulsive young tutor, is an employee of a fallen Russian general. He falls madly in love with the general’s daughter, Polina, and agrees to gamble on her behalf—an act that propels him into the seductive, destructive world of chance and obsession. Inspired by Dostoyevsky’s own compulsive entanglement with roulette and loss, The Gambler is set in a fictional European spa town. It captures the volatility of human desire and the feverish highs and humiliating lows of gambling addiction. Both intensely personal and universally resonant, it stands as a taut and vivid portrait of the allure of risk and the psychological toll it exacts.
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(NOTE: The Book cover may vary if published by different companies.)
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Categories: Fiction
Pages: 128
Publisher: Readings
Cover: Softcover
Book description :Alexei Ivanovich, a passionate and impulsive young tutor, is an employee of a fallen Russian general. He falls madly in love with the general’s daughter, Polina, and agrees to gamble on her behalf—an act that propels him into the seductive, destructive world of chance and obsession. Inspired by Dostoyevsky’s own compulsive entanglement with roulette and loss, The Gambler is set in a fictional European spa town. It captures the volatility of human desire and the feverish highs and humiliating lows of gambling addiction. Both intensely personal and universally resonant, it stands as a taut and vivid portrait of the allure of risk and the psychological toll it exacts.
