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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... feels the inferiority of his position in relation to the others of the general's entourage. (Many of Dostoyevsky's heroes nourish a morbid hypersensitivity: Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment, for example.) To compensate, he commits ...
... feels the inferiority of his position in relation to the others of the general's entourage. (Many of Dostoyevsky's heroes nourish a morbid hypersensitivity: Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment, for example.) To compensate, he commits ...
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky. feels will make him unlucky ) , and although he's put off by the casino , because it is all ' so filthy somehow morally sordid and dirty ' , he wins and delivers the money to Polina . His second time at the tables he ...
Fyodor Dostoyevsky. feels will make him unlucky ) , and although he's put off by the casino , because it is all ' so filthy somehow morally sordid and dirty ' , he wins and delivers the money to Polina . His second time at the tables he ...
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... of Algiers has a bump on his nose ! ' It's enough to look at the portrait of the author of A Writer's Diary , currently on exhibit in the Academy of Arts , to feel that same compassion for Mr Dostoyevsky that he so inappropriately.
... of Algiers has a bump on his nose ! ' It's enough to look at the portrait of the author of A Writer's Diary , currently on exhibit in the Academy of Arts , to feel that same compassion for Mr Dostoyevsky that he so inappropriately.
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... feel as if you were to blame . You can't help but be tormented by the thought of this meek soul who destroyed herself . 17 Clearly , Dostoyevsky was haunted by the image of the young seamstress , identified by the newspapers as Marya ...
... feel as if you were to blame . You can't help but be tormented by the thought of this meek soul who destroyed herself . 17 Clearly , Dostoyevsky was haunted by the image of the young seamstress , identified by the newspapers as Marya ...
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... feeling, having adopted the motto: 'Knowledge is higher than feeling, consciousness of life is higher than life. Science will give us wisdom.' In other words, he has corrupted them with the very rationality that had originally set him ...
... feeling, having adopted the motto: 'Knowledge is higher than feeling, consciousness of life is higher than life. Science will give us wisdom.' In other words, he has corrupted them with the very rationality that had originally set him ...
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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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