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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... roulette tables in Wiesbaden, while his lover Apollinaria Suslova waited for him in Paris. The following summer, in a letter to Anna KorvinKrukovskaya, whom he courted after the death of his wife in 1864, Dostoyevsky, who had not ...
... roulette tables in Wiesbaden, while his lover Apollinaria Suslova waited for him in Paris. The following summer, in a letter to Anna KorvinKrukovskaya, whom he courted after the death of his wife in 1864, Dostoyevsky, who had not ...
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... roulette. He is a gambler, and not an ordinary gambler, just as Pushkin's miserly knight is not an ordinary knight ... If House of the Dead drew the attention of the public as a portrait of convicts, whom no one had portrayed ...
... roulette. He is a gambler, and not an ordinary gambler, just as Pushkin's miserly knight is not an ordinary knight ... If House of the Dead drew the attention of the public as a portrait of convicts, whom no one had portrayed ...
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... roulette table, stealing from her and swindling her as they do, all the while maintaining that they are 'honourable'. The far from flattering portraits of the Germans and Poles here remind one of the chapter in Crime and Punishment ...
... roulette table, stealing from her and swindling her as they do, all the while maintaining that they are 'honourable'. The far from flattering portraits of the Germans and Poles here remind one of the chapter in Crime and Punishment ...
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... roulette and gambles away all of the considerable money that she's brought with her from Russia, thus seeming to prove the narrator's observation that 'roulette is simply made for Russians', she does at last realize that she has been a ...
... roulette and gambles away all of the considerable money that she's brought with her from Russia, thus seeming to prove the narrator's observation that 'roulette is simply made for Russians', she does at last realize that she has been a ...
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... roulette tables in Wiesbaden and elsewhere, as well as the far-from-placid affair with Suslova, when composing his novel, but to view the work as thinly veiled autobiography is to confuse the mature writer with his adolescent narrator ...
... roulette tables in Wiesbaden and elsewhere, as well as the far-from-placid affair with Suslova, when composing his novel, but to view the work as thinly veiled autobiography is to confuse the mature writer with his adolescent narrator ...
المحتوى
CHAPTER 9 | |
CHAPTER 10 | |
CHAPTER 11 | |
CHAPTER 12 | |
CHAPTER 13 | |
CHAPTER 14 | |
CHAPTER 15 | |
CHAPTER 16 | |
NASTENKAS STORY | |
THE THIRD NIGHT | |
THE FOURTH NIGHT | |
MORNING | |
A CHRISTMAS PARTY AND A WEDDING | |
A NASTY BUSINESS | |
THE GAMBLER | |
CHAPTER 2 | |
CHAPTER 3 | |
CHAPTER 4 | |
CHAPTER 5 | |
CHAPTER 6 | |
CHAPTER 7 | |
CHAPTER 8 | |
CHAPTER 17 | |
BOBOK | |
THE MEEK ONE | |
THE DREAM OF A RIDICULOUS MAN | |
II | |
III | |
IV | |
V | |
Notes | |
Appendix II Table of Ranks | |
Appendix III A Note about Money in The Gambler | |
ROUBLES AND THALERS | |
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