Title: The gambler /
Authors: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881; MacAndrew, Andrew Robert, 1911-; MacAndrew, Andrew R. 1911-2001
Publisher: W.W. Norton,
Year: 1981
Subjects: Gamblers Fiction; Russia Fiction
Abstract: Alexey Ivanovitch, a young tutor working in the household of an imperious Russian general, tries to break through the wall of the established order in Russia, but instead becomes mired in the endless downward spiral of betting and loss. His intense and inescapable addiction is accentuated by his affair with the general's cruel yet seductive niece, Polina.