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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... Dostoyevsky's own romance with roulette . In the autumn of 1863 , Dostoyevsky wrote to his brother from Wiesbaden to explain how he can linger in the gambling halls when Suslova is in Paris : You ask how one can gamble away one's shirt ...
... Dostoyevsky's own romance with roulette . In the autumn of 1863 , Dostoyevsky wrote to his brother from Wiesbaden to explain how he can linger in the gambling halls when Suslova is in Paris : You ask how one can gamble away one's shirt ...
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky. — debtor's prison , and he admits to himself that ' it was not the money that was dear to me ... Dostoyevsky's writing career . Narrated by the unnamed Dreamer of the subtitle ( ' A Sentimental Love Story ( From the ...
Fyodor Dostoyevsky. — debtor's prison , and he admits to himself that ' it was not the money that was dear to me ... Dostoyevsky's writing career . Narrated by the unnamed Dreamer of the subtitle ( ' A Sentimental Love Story ( From the ...
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The second night the Dreamer and Nastenka exchange their life stories . The Dreamer begins his ' ridiculous story ... as though [ he ] were reading something that had been written down ' . His life , and its telling ...
Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The second night the Dreamer and Nastenka exchange their life stories . The Dreamer begins his ' ridiculous story ... as though [ he ] were reading something that had been written down ' . His life , and its telling ...
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... DOSTOYEVSKY AS SOCIAL CRITIC The figure of the young girl in distress is a constant in Dostoyevsky's fiction , from ' White Nights ' to such later works as Crime and Punishment , when Raskolnikov comes to the aid of a drunken young girl ...
... DOSTOYEVSKY AS SOCIAL CRITIC The figure of the young girl in distress is a constant in Dostoyevsky's fiction , from ' White Nights ' to such later works as Crime and Punishment , when Raskolnikov comes to the aid of a drunken young girl ...
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky. that same compassion for Mr Dostoyevsky that he so inappropriately mocks in his journal . This is the portrait of a man exhausted by a grave illness . The story can quite literally be regarded as Dostoyevsky's reply ...
Fyodor Dostoyevsky. that same compassion for Mr Dostoyevsky that he so inappropriately mocks in his journal . This is the portrait of a man exhausted by a grave illness . The story can quite literally be regarded as Dostoyevsky's reply ...
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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