The Gambler and Other Stories
$22.89
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
11 August 2010
Summary
Tales of Vice and Virtue: Dostoyevsky’s Short Stories
A new selection of seven of Dostoyevsky’s best short stories, translated by Ronald Meyer.
The Gambler and Other Stories is Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s collection of one novella and six short stories reflecting his own life. ‘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.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140455090 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140455094 |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Author: | Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ronald Meyer |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 11 August 2010 |
| Weight: | 317g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 24mm |
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About The Author
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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, Dostoyevsky 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.
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