The Gambler
Released: Mar 21, 2017
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback, 162 pages
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Description:
The Gambler is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky about a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian general. The novella reflects Dostoyevsky's own addiction to roulette, which was in more ways than one the inspiration for the book: Dostoyevsky completed the novella under a strict deadline to pay off gambling debts.The Gambler treated a subject Fyodor Dostoyevsky himself was familiar with-gambling. Fyodor Dostoyevsky gambled for the first time at the gaming tables at Wiesbaden in 1863.
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