The Gambler and Other StoriesPenguin UK, 01/07/2010 - 432 من الصفحات The Gambler and Other Stories is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's collection of one novella and six short stories reflecting his own life - indeed, 'The Gambler', a story of a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian General, was written under a strict deadline so he could pay off his roulette debts. This volume includes 'Bobok', the tale of a frustrated writer visiting a cemetery and enjoying the gossip of the dead; 'The Dream of a Ridiculous Man', the story of one man's plan to commit suicide and the troubling dream that follows, as well as 'A Christmas Party and a Wedding', 'A Nasty Story' and 'The Meek One'. |
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... course of the novel , but others remain enigmas . For example , who is Mezentsov ? He is never mentioned again . To complicate the picture , The Gambler has been traditionally viewed as Dostoyevsky's most autobiographical novel . To be ...
... course of the novel , but others remain enigmas . For example , who is Mezentsov ? He is never mentioned again . To complicate the picture , The Gambler has been traditionally viewed as Dostoyevsky's most autobiographical novel . To be ...
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... course of the novel he offers to be her slave, to throw himself down from a mountain peak and to kill her former lover would seem to draw a parallel with Dostoyevsky's tortured love affair with Apollinaria (Polina) Suslova, particularly ...
... course of the novel he offers to be her slave, to throw himself down from a mountain peak and to kill her former lover would seem to draw a parallel with Dostoyevsky's tortured love affair with Apollinaria (Polina) Suslova, particularly ...
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... course he had done so at first sight . His love grows on each successive night , though he does not declare himself until the fourth night , when it seems unlikely that the former lodger will come to the appointed spot by the canal ...
... course he had done so at first sight . His love grows on each successive night , though he does not declare himself until the fourth night , when it seems unlikely that the former lodger will come to the appointed spot by the canal ...
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... course , it is love that keeps people from being alone . The story ends with a variation on the question that begins his monologue : ' No , seriously , when they take her away tomorrow , what will become of me ? ' When telling the story ...
... course , it is love that keeps people from being alone . The story ends with a variation on the question that begins his monologue : ' No , seriously , when they take her away tomorrow , what will become of me ? ' When telling the story ...
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... course of my work on The Gambler and Other Stories . First and foremost , to the late Robert Maguire , who was translating Dostoyevsky's Demons when I began my work on this volume . Bob was enormously generous with his experience as a ...
... course of my work on The Gambler and Other Stories . First and foremost , to the late Robert Maguire , who was translating Dostoyevsky's Demons when I began my work on this volume . Bob was enormously generous with his experience as a ...
المحتوى
A Christmas Party and a Wedding | |
A Nasty Business | |
The Gambler | |
Bobok | |
The Meek | |
The Dream of a Ridiculous | |
Notes | |
Appendices | |
Table of Ranks | |
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