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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... that I can still be a man.' THE DREAMER 'White Nights' takes the reader back almost twenty years to the early days of Dostoyevsky's writing career. Narrated by the unnamed Dreamer of the subtitle ('A Sentimental Love Story (From.
... that I can still be a man.' THE DREAMER 'White Nights' takes the reader back almost twenty years to the early days of Dostoyevsky's writing career. Narrated by the unnamed Dreamer of the subtitle ('A Sentimental Love Story (From.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky. unnamed Dreamer of the subtitle ('A Sentimental Love Story (From the Memoirs of a Dreamer)'), the story opens with an extended monologue of how he spends his days alone in the capital even though he has been a ...
Fyodor Dostoyevsky. unnamed Dreamer of the subtitle ('A Sentimental Love Story (From the Memoirs of a Dreamer)'), the story opens with an extended monologue of how he spends his days alone in the capital even though he has been a ...
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... story is as plain-spoken and straightforward as the Dreamer's is florid and rhetorical. We learn of her quiet life with her blind grandmother, the only interesting detail being that the latter pins her granddaughter to her dress so that ...
... story is as plain-spoken and straightforward as the Dreamer's is florid and rhetorical. We learn of her quiet life with her blind grandmother, the only interesting detail being that the latter pins her granddaughter to her dress so that ...
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... story find the Dreamer once again in his room as he imagines his life fifteen years hence, still in the same room ... story of lechery in which the little girl does not get away, but is married off to her pursuer cum suitor with ...
... story find the Dreamer once again in his room as he imagines his life fifteen years hence, still in the same room ... story of lechery in which the little girl does not get away, but is married off to her pursuer cum suitor with ...
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... story opens, Ivan Ilyich Pralinsky, advocates, after several glasses of champagne, extending the ideas behind the government reforms to everyday life, all under the banner of 'humaneness'. Nikiforov, his cynical host, cryptically ...
... story opens, Ivan Ilyich Pralinsky, advocates, after several glasses of champagne, extending the ideas behind the government reforms to everyday life, all under the banner of 'humaneness'. Nikiforov, his cynical host, cryptically ...
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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