- Hardcover: 220 pages
- Publisher: Wildside Press (February 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 159224761X
- ISBN-13: 978-1592247615
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 481 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,187,378 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Gambler is the tale of a man named Alexei with a passion for -- no, an addiction to -- roulette. In Dostoevsky's own words, ". . . all his vital sap, all his energies, his impetuosity and boldness will be absorbed by roulette. He is a gambler, but not just an ordinary gambler . . . My hero is, in his way, a poet, but he feels ashamed. . .and he feels its ugliness [the ugliness of his addiction] deeply." It's an oddly sympathetic tale, and Dostoevsky was well suited to telling it: The heroine of The Gambler is based on the fiery Apollinaria Suslov -- Dostoevsky's own mistress.
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