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020 _a9781785996283
024 _a990486013
050 _aPG3326
082 _a891.733
100 1 _aFyodor Dostoevsky
245 1 _aThe Gambler
260 _bArcturus Publishing
520 _aA 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.
650 _aLiterature
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