The Gambler
Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 13,34 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Russia
ISBN :
Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 13,34 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Russia
ISBN :
Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 39,11 MB
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0141943572
The Gambler and Other Stories is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's collection of one novella and six short stories reflecting his own life - indeed, 'The Gambler', a story of a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian General, was written under a strict deadline so he could pay off his roulette debts. This volume includes 'Bobok', the tale of a frustrated writer visiting a cemetery and enjoying the gossip of the dead; 'The Dream of a Ridiculous Man', the story of one man's plan to commit suicide and the troubling dream that follows, as well as 'A Christmas Party and a Wedding', 'A Nasty Story' and 'The Meek One'.
Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 40,42 MB
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1465589325
Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 23,74 MB
Release : 1931
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Andrew D. Kaufman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 39,63 MB
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0525537155
FINALIST FOR THE PEN JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY “Feminism, history, literature, politics—this tale has all of that, and a heroine worthy of her own turn in the spotlight.” —Therese Anne Fowler, bestselling author of Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald A revelatory new portrait of the courageous woman who saved Dostoyevsky’s life—and became a pioneer in Russian literary history In the fall of 1866, a twenty-year-old stenographer named Anna Snitkina applied for a position with a writer she idolized: Fyodor Dostoyevsky. A self-described “girl of the sixties,” Snitkina had come of age during Russia’s first feminist movement, and Dostoyevsky—a notorious radical turned acclaimed novelist—had impressed the young woman with his enlightened and visionary fiction. Yet in person she found the writer “terribly unhappy, broken, tormented,” weakened by epilepsy, and yoked to a ruinous gambling addiction. Alarmed by his condition, Anna became his trusted first reader and confidante, then his wife, and finally his business manager—launching one of literature’s most turbulent and fascinating marriages. The Gambler Wife offers a fresh and captivating portrait of Anna Dostoyevskaya, who reversed the novelist’s freefall and cleared the way for two of the most notable careers in Russian letters—her husband’s and her own. Drawing on diaries, letters, and other little-known archival sources, Andrew Kaufman reveals how Anna protected her family from creditors, demanding in-laws, and her greatest romantic rival, through years of penury and exile. We watch as she navigates the writer’s self-destructive binges in the casinos of Europe—even hazarding an audacious turn at roulette herself—until his addiction is conquered. And, finally, we watch as Anna frees her husband from predatory contracts by founding her own publishing house, making Anna the first solo female publisher in Russian history. The result is a story that challenges ideas of empowerment, sacrifice, and female agency in nineteenth-century Russia—and a welcome new appraisal of an indomitable woman whose legacy has been nearly lost to literary history.
Author : Fedor Mikhailovitch Dostoïevski
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 32,62 MB
Release : 1923
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Фыодор Достоыевскы
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,63 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Compulsive gamblers
ISBN :
Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,57 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Antennas (Electronics)
ISBN :
Author : Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevskii
Publisher :
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 25,34 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Short stories, Russian
ISBN :
Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 39,74 MB
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0486114406
A rich and idle man confronts his dead mistress's husband in this psychological novel of duality. Powerful and accessible, it offers a captivating and revealing exploration of love, guilt, and hatred.