The Gambler and Other Stories

Informationen zum Autor Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) was a Russian novelist, journalist, short-story writer whose works had a profound influence on the 20th century novel. Most of his important works were written after 1864: Notes from Underground (1864), Crime and Punishment (1865-6), The Gambler (1866), The Idiot (1869), The Devils (1871) and The Brothers Karamazov (1880). Klappentext '40!000 francs! which lay before him in a heap of gold and banknotes.' Written in twenty-six days to pay off Dostoyevsky's own roulette debts! The Gambler is a graphic psychological study of addiction! accompanied here by a brilliant short story of excruciating social embarrassment. Zusammenfassung '40,000 francs, which lay before him in a heap of gold and banknotes.' Written in twenty-six days to pay off Dostoyevsky's own roulette debts, The Gambler is a graphic psychological study of addiction, accompanied here by a brilliant short story of excruciating social embarrassment. Ten new titles in the colourful, small-format, portable new Pocket Penguins series

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• Authors: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Fjodor M. Dostojewskij
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.08.2016
• EAN: 9780241259580
• ISBN: 978-0-241-25958-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 181 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Pocket Penguins; Penguin Pocket Classics
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature