基本信息出版社：Dover Publications Inc.
页码：112 页
出版日期：1996年05月
ISBN：0486290816
条形码：9780486290812
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Dover Thrift Editions
外文书名：赌徒

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Psychologically probing novel concerns the gambling eqisodes, tangled love affairs and complicated lives of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young gambler; Polina Alexandrovna, the woman he loves; a pair of French adventurers and other characters. Bleak picture of the fatal attractions of gambling with wonderful characterization, faithful depiction of life among the gambling set at fashionable German watering holes.

作者简介 Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-81) is regarded as one of the greatest prose writers of all time. Journalist and writer Jonathan Franzen is the author of three novels - The Twenty-Seventh City, Strong Motion, and The Corrections (which won the National Book Awards 2001). He has been named one of 'Twenty Writers for the 21st Century' by The New Yorker and one of the 'Best Young American Novelists' by Granta. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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The Gambler brilliantly captures the strangely powerful compulsion to bet that Dostoyevsky, himself a compulsive gambler, knew so well. The hero rides an emotional roller coaster between exhilaration and despair, and secondary characters such as the Grandmother, who throws much of her fortune away at the gaming tables, are unforgettable. The book's publishing history is equally so: Under the pressure of a deadline from an unscrupulous publisher, and with rights to his entire oeuvre at stake, Dostoyevsky dictated the book in less than a month to the star pupil of Russia's first shorthand school. Then he married her. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.