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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... girl's history , her marriage and the reasons for her suicide are all Dostoyevsky's invention : an imagined , plausible chain of events that could lead a young woman , a believer , to say her last prayers and leap to her death . ― " The ...
... girl's history , her marriage and the reasons for her suicide are all Dostoyevsky's invention : an imagined , plausible chain of events that could lead a young woman , a believer , to say her last prayers and leap to her death . ― " The ...
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... girl in distress sets the plot in motion - whether he answers her appeal and how he does so will determine his fate.19 Finally , the Ridiculous Man raises once again the problem of the growing incidence of suicide in Russia . The ...
... girl in distress sets the plot in motion - whether he answers her appeal and how he does so will determine his fate.19 Finally , the Ridiculous Man raises once again the problem of the growing incidence of suicide in Russia . The ...
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... girl appears out of nowhere , tugging at his sleeve . Soaked to the skin in only a dress and kerchief , she calls out to the Ridiculous Man , who continues resolutely on his way , without stopping . She continues pleading , crying out ...
... girl appears out of nowhere , tugging at his sleeve . Soaked to the skin in only a dress and kerchief , she calls out to the Ridiculous Man , who continues resolutely on his way , without stopping . She continues pleading , crying out ...
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... girl. NOTES 1. Letter to his father, Mikhail Dostoyevsky, 23 March 1839, Complete Letters, vol. 1, tr. and ed. David Lowe and Ronald Meyer (Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1988), p. 48. 2. Letter to Anna Korvin-Krukovskaya, 17 June 1866, Complete ...
... girl. NOTES 1. Letter to his father, Mikhail Dostoyevsky, 23 March 1839, Complete Letters, vol. 1, tr. and ed. David Lowe and Ronald Meyer (Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1988), p. 48. 2. Letter to Anna Korvin-Krukovskaya, 17 June 1866, Complete ...
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... girl , who calls to a pedlar with jugs of flowers – I immediately , there and then , imagine that these flowers are being bought not simply so as to take pleasure in the spring and flowers in a stuffy city apartment , but because ...
... girl , who calls to a pedlar with jugs of flowers – I immediately , there and then , imagine that these flowers are being bought not simply so as to take pleasure in the spring and flowers in a stuffy city apartment , but because ...
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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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