Gambler (Dostoyevsky - Dover ed.)

Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

ISBN: 9780486290812

Binding: paperback

Section: Fiction

Description: Psychologically probing novel concerns the gambling episodes, tangled love affairs and complicated lives of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young gambler; Polina Alexandrovna, the woman he loves; a pair of French adventurers and other characters. Bleak picture of the fatal attractions of gambling with wonderful characterization, faithful depiction of gambling life at fashionable German watering holes.