by Fyodor Dostoevsky · Hesperus Press Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781843911234
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«The Gambler» is the psychological novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, published by Hesperus Press Ltd in paperback (160 pages, in English).
The young tutor Alexei Ivanovich accompanies a ruined Russian general and falls prey to the roulette wheel. The general's elderly grandmother appears at the casino and squanders an inheritance everyone expected, while Alexei wavers between debts and an impossible love. The work is inspired by Dostoevsky's own experiences with gambling.
It belongs to the Hesperus Classics collection, with a foreword by Jonathan Franzen and a translation by Hugh Aplin. The work was originally published in Russian in 1866.
For readers of nineteenth-century classics, Russian literature, and stories about addiction and gambling.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was a Russian philosopher, novelist, short-story writer, essayist and journalist. He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in both Russian and world literature, and many of his works are considered highly influential masterpieces. Dostoevsky's literary works explore the human condition in the troubled political, social and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. His most acclaimed novels include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), Demons (1872), The Adolescent (1875) and The Brothers Karamazov (1880). His Notes from Underground, a novella published in 1864, is considered one of the first works of existentialist literature.
