Psychologically probing novel concerns the gambling episodes, tangled love affairs and complicated lives of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young gambler; Polina Alexandrovna, the woman he loves; a pair of French adventurers and other characters. Bleak picture of the fatal attractions of gambling with wonderful characterization, faithful depiction of gambling life at fashionable German watering holes.
| ISBN: | 9780486290812 |
| Publication date: | 1st February 2000 |
| Author: | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| Publisher: | Dover Publications an imprint of Dover Publications Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 117 pages |
| Series: | Dover Thrift Editions |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary |