TY - BOOK AU - Fyodor Dostoevsky TI - The Gambler SN - 9781785996283 AV - PG3326 U1 - 891.733 PB - Arcturus Publishing KW - Literature N2 - A compulsive gambler himself at a certain period of his life, Dostoyevsky wrote this novel with real authority. Set in the appropriately named Roulettenburg, a German spa with a casino and an international clientele, it 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 ER -