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The Gambler (Russian: Игрокъ, romanized: Igrok; modern spelling Игрок) is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky about a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian general. The novella reflects Dostoevsky's own addiction to roulette, which was in more ways than one the inspiration for the book: Dostoevsky completed the novella in 1866 under a strict deadline to pay off gambling debts.
Literary origin
Country whose literature this title belongs to, based on author tradition —not necessarily where the story is set.
Russia
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Subjects
- Translations into English
- Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Gamblers
- Fiction
- Compulsive gamblers
- Fiction, action & adventure
- Fiction, general
- Germany, fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Gamblers -- Fiction
Times & places
- 19th century