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The gambler

By Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles James Hogarth (Translator)
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By Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles James Hogarth (Translator)
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The story of The Gambler, one of Dostoevsky's most autobiographical novels, is narrated in diary form by the protagonist, a young tutor in the household of a Russian general residing in a German spa resort. Welcomed into the colorful court of parasites revolving around the now ruined general, the tutor is won over by the demon of gambling and becomes a professional risk-taker who impassively suffers wins and losses and accepts good and bad fortune with the same indifference, the same nobili...

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