The Gambler - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Grāmatas - Max Bollinger - 9781907832543 - 2012. gada 9. februāris
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The Gambler

Dostoyevsky's own passion for gambling lays in foundation of this novel. He first gambled at the gaming tables at Wiesbaden and later, when his passion for gambling subsided, he played at Baden-Baden, often beginning by winning a small amount of money and losing far more in the end. Using his future work as collateral with his publisher in exchange for cash he was eventually given a final deadline to complete the novel or sell the rights to all his work in the next nine years. So great was the pressure that Dostoyevsky was only able to finish the novel on time using one of the very first stenographers in Russia and his wife-to-be, Anna Grigorievna. 'And I believed in my system ... within a quarter of an hour I won 600 francs. This whetted my appetite. Suddenly I started to lose, couldn't control myself and lost everything. After that I ... took my last money, and went to play ...' ? From Dostoyevsky's letters to his brother Mikhail.


170 pages, black & white illustrations

Mediji Grāmatas     Paperback Book   (Grāmata ar mīksto vāku un līmēto muguru)
Izlaists 2012. gada 9. februāris
ISBN13 9781907832543
Izdevēji Max Bollinger
Lapas 170
Izmēri 134 × 203 × 11 mm   ·   199 g
Valoda Angļu  

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