The Gambler (Phoenix Classics)

This book contains several tables of HTML content to make reading easier.The Gambler was written under the pressure of crushing debt. It is a stunning psychological portrait of a young man''s exhilarating and destructive addiction, a compulsion that Dostoevsky–who once gambled away his young wife''s wedding ring–knew intimately from his own experience. In the disastrous love affairs and gambling a...