Language: English
Published in: 1867
Categorie(s): Fiction
Word count: 60,237 words (≈ about 4 hours)
Copyright: Public Domain
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… (more)
Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:45:15 +0200
Fixed. Added dropcaps to the new version.
Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:49:48 +0200
Chapter 14 seems to be a duplicate of chapter 13.