The Gambler

Alexei Ivanovich, a passionate and impulsive young tutor, is an employee of a fallen Russian general. He falls madly in love with the general’s daughter, Polina, and agrees to gamble on her behalf—an act that propels him into the seductive, destructive world of chance and obsession. Inspired by Dostoyevsky’s own compulsive entanglement with roulette and loss, The Gambler is set in a fictional European spa town. It captures the volatility of human desire and the feverish highs and humiliating lows of gambling addiction. Both intensely personal and universally resonant, it stands as a taut and vivid portrait of the allure of risk and the psychological toll it exacts.

Author Description: 
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky was born in Moscow on November 11, 1821. He is known for his profound understanding of human psychology and his ability to bring forth the darkest realms of human nature. Dostoyevsky inspired a number of modern movements including Existentialism, literary criticism and many schools of psychology and theology. He influenced a number of modern philosophers and writers including Anton Chekov, George Orwell and Jean-Paul Sartre. He is best known for his novels Notes from Underground (1864), Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (serialized from 1868 to 1869) The Possessed or otherwise known as Demons (serialised from 1871. to 1872) and The Brothers Karamazov (serialised from 1879 to 1880). Dostoyevsky died on February 9, 1881 at the age of 59, in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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