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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... Russia, who midway through the novel literally rolls into this enclave of expatriate Russians and rootless Europeans ... Russian Point of View', Virginia Woolf characterizes Dostoyevsky's novels as 'seething whirlpools' and summarizes ...
... Russia, who midway through the novel literally rolls into this enclave of expatriate Russians and rootless Europeans ... Russian Point of View', Virginia Woolf characterizes Dostoyevsky's novels as 'seething whirlpools' and summarizes ...
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky. We open the door and find ourselves in a room full of Russian generals, the tutors of Russian generals, their stepdaughters and cousins, and crowds of miscellaneous people who are all talking at the tops of their ...
Fyodor Dostoyevsky. We open the door and find ourselves in a room full of Russian generals, the tutors of Russian generals, their stepdaughters and cousins, and crowds of miscellaneous people who are all talking at the tops of their ...
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... Russian society novels.' His actions and speech take their cue from books – everything he sees and experiences is filtered through literature. But he does spring into action here and saves the girl from the unwanted attentions of the ...
... Russian society novels.' His actions and speech take their cue from books – everything he sees and experiences is filtered through literature. But he does spring into action here and saves the girl from the unwanted attentions of the ...
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... Russia at the time. The youngest of the three generals assembled as the story opens, Ivan Ilyich Pralinsky ... Russian word for 'pseudonym'.) The tipsy Pralinsky, who has visions of becoming a famous statesman one day, an event ...
... Russia at the time. The youngest of the three generals assembled as the story opens, Ivan Ilyich Pralinsky ... Russian word for 'pseudonym'.) The tipsy Pralinsky, who has visions of becoming a famous statesman one day, an event ...
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... Russia's comic genius, Nikolay Gogol. The allusion elicits from Dostoyevsky a Gogolian response in genre, narrator and style.13 Both 'Bobok' and 'The Notes of a Madman' share the same genre identification – notes (zapiski). Furthermore ...
... Russia's comic genius, Nikolay Gogol. The allusion elicits from Dostoyevsky a Gogolian response in genre, narrator and style.13 Both 'Bobok' and 'The Notes of a Madman' share the same genre identification – notes (zapiski). Furthermore ...
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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