Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Gambler

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Produktbeschreibung

The Gambler is a short novel following Alexei Ivanovich, a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian general who is indebted to the Frenchman Des Grieux and has mortgaged his property in Russia to pay his debt. The story reflects Dostoyevsky's own addiction to roulette. Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a Russian writer and philosopher whose literary works explore human psychology in the context of the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bottom of the Hill Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 231g
• ISBN-13: 9781483706528
• ISBN-10: 1483706524
• Artikelnr.: 41806033

Autorenporträt

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. His debut, the epistolary novella Poor Folk (1846), made his name. In 1849 he was arrested for involvement with the politically subversive 'Petrashevsky circle' and until 1854 he lived in a convict prison in Omsk, Siberia. From this experience came The House of the Dead (1860-2). In 1860 he began the journal Vremya (Time). Already married, he fell in love with one of his contributors, Appollinaria Suslova, eighteen years his junior, and developed a ruinous passion for roulette. After the death of his first wife, Maria, in 1864, Dostoevsky completed Notes from Underground and began work towards Crime and Punishment (1866). The major novels of his late period are The Idiot (1868), Demons (1871-2) and The Brothers Karamazov (1879-80). He died in 1881.