The House of the Dead / The Gambler

Name: The House of the Dead / The Gambler
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Publishing house: Wordsworth Editions Ltd

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

SKU: 9781840226294

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The House of the Dead is fiction, but based on his four years in a Siberian prison. An educated upper-class man is condemned to live among criminals and brutal guards, with arbitrary punishments, lousy food, disgusting living conditions, hard toil and many floggings. Somehow he avoids bitterness and recrimination; faith in humanity survives. With its breadth of characterisation, acute sense of detail and strong narrative interest, this work can still shock, entertain and inspire.

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In The Gambler we see the Russian community in a German spa town. Drawn to the casino, Alexey becomes obsessed with roulette. In a gripping story, full of psychological interest, his growing mania eclipses even his interest in Polina, a heroine of demonic and vibrant sexuality. Dostoevsky himself was rescued from a similar gambling obsession by the young stenographer who took down this work at his dictation and married him soon afterwards.

ISBN:

9781840226294

Genre:

Classic Books

Publishing house:

Wordsworth Editions Ltd

Binding:

Paperback

Author:

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Pages::

480

language:

English

Метка:

Ekspress

Weight, gr:

298

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