The Gambler and a Nasty Business
Author(s): Fyodor Dostoyevsky
'40,000 francs, which lay before him in a heap of gold and banknotes.' Written in twenty-six days to pay off Dostoyevsky's own roulette debts, The Gambler is a graphic psychological study of addiction, accompanied here by a brilliant short story of excruciating social embarrassment. Ten new titles in the colourful, small-format, portable new Pocket Penguins series
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Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) was a Russian novelist, journalist, short-story writer whose works had a profound influence on the 20th century novel. Most of his important works were written after 1864: Notes from Underground (1864), Crime and Punishment (1865-6), The Gambler (1866), The Idiot (1869), The Devils (1871) and The Brothers Karamazov(1880).
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : Penguin Classics
- : 0.159
- : 04 August 2016
- : 181mm X 111mm X 16mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 14 November 2016
- : books
Special Fields
- : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 891.733
- : 272