Join us on a literary world trip!
Add this book to bookshelf
Grey
Write a new comment Default profile 50px
Grey
Subscribe to read the full book or read the first pages for free!
All characters reduced
The Gambler - cover

The Gambler

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Publisher: Avia Artis

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Summary

The Gambler - a short novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, a Russian novelist, philosopher and short story writer. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest psychological novelists in world literature.

The first-person narrative is told from the point of view of Alexei Ivanovich, a tutor working for a Russian family living in a suite at a German hotel. The patriarch of the family, The General, is indebted to the Frenchman de Grieux and has mortgaged his property in Russia to pay only a small amount of his debt. Upon learning of the illness of his wealthy aunt, "Grandmother", he sends streams of telegrams to Moscow and awaits the news of her demise. His expected inheritance will pay his debts and gain Mademoiselle Blanche de Cominges's hand in marriage.
Available since: 05/12/2021.

Other books that might interest you

  • Mary E Mann - A Short Story Collection - A selection of stories from the underrated author Mary E Mann who wrote primarily about poverty and the struggle of rural life - cover

    Mary E Mann - A Short Story...

    Mary E. Mann

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Mary Rackham was born in Norwich on 14th August 1848 to a merchant family.  Little is known of her early life and her biography only re-appears in September 1871 with marriage to Fairman Joseph Mann, a farmer with 800 acres.   
     
    Mary moved to Shropham, Norfolk and became involved with the workhouse, visiting the sick and other unfortunates of the parish, her observations and experiences a valuable source for her later stories.  
     
    She took up writing, partly to offset the dreary village life of her surroundings, in the 1880s and published her first novel, ‘The Parish of Hilby’ (1883) at her own expense. It was well received by the critics.  
     
    Thus began a career that spanning three decades provided thirty-three novels, hundreds of short stories, and fourteen plays.? Her work was largely focused on rural life in Norfolk and centered on the fictional town of Dulditch, with grim but authentic accounts of poverty and deprivation.  
     
    Her marriage produced one boy and three girls. With her husband's death in 1913, she moved to Sheringham.  
     
    She is regarded as a major contributor to East Anglian literature with particular praise given to her short stories. 
     
    Mary E Mann died on 19th May 1929.  She was 80.  Her grave-marker is a carved open book with the epitaph ‘We bring our years to an end, as if it were a tale that is told’. 
     
    1 - The Short Stories of Mary E Mann - An Introduction 
    2 - Wolf Charlie by Mary E Mann 
    3 - Ben Pitcher's Elly by Mary E Mann 
    4 - Some of the Shipwrecked by Mary E Mann 
    5 - Rats by Mary E Mann 
    6 - Clomayne's Clerk by Mary E Mann 
    7 - The Country Doctor by Mary E Mann 
    8 - Little Brother by Mary E Mann
    Show book
  • The Richest Man in Babylon - cover

    The Richest Man in Babylon

    George S. Clason

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Beloved by millions, this timeless classic holds the key to all you desire and everything you wish to accomplish. This is the book that reveals the secret to personal wealth.The Success Secrets of the Ancients—An Assured Road to Happiness and ProsperityCountless readers have been helped by the famous "Babylonian parables," hailed as the greatest of all inspirational works on the subject of thrift, financial planning, and personal wealth. In language as simple as that found in the Bible, these fascinating and informative stories set you on a sure path to prosperity and its accompanying joys. Acclaimed as a modern-day classic, this celebrated bestseller offers an understanding of—and a solution to—your personal financial problems that will guide you through a lifetime. This is the book that holds the secrets to keeping your money—and making more.The Richest Man in BabylonRead it and recommend it to loved ones—and get on the road to riches.MORE THAN TWO MILLION BOOKS SOLD
    Show book
  • Boarding House The (Unabridged) - cover

    Boarding House The (Unabridged)

    James Joyce

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 - 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century.THE BOARDING HOUSE: Mrs Mooney was a butcher's daughter. She was a woman who was quite able to keep things to herself: a determined woman. She had married her father's foreman and opened a butcher's shop near Spring Gardens.
    Show book
  • The Lanny Budd Novels Volume Two - Wide Is the Gate Presidential Agent and Dragon Harvest - cover

    The Lanny Budd Novels Volume Two...

    Upton Sinclair

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Books four through six in the Pulitzer Prize–winning series of historical novels about an international spy in the first half of the twentieth century.     An ambitious and entertaining mix of history, adventure, and romance, Upton Sinclair’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Lanny Budd novels are a testament to the breathtaking scope of the author’s vision and his singular talents as a storyteller. “Few works of fiction are more fun to read; fewer still make history half as clear, or as human” (Time). In these three novels, as the threat of Nazism grows in the 1930s, Lanny progresses from international art dealer to international spy.  Wide Is the Gate: When his arms dealer father strikes a business agreement with Hermann Göring, Lanny uses the opportunity and his art world reputation to move easily among the Nazi high command and gather valuable information he can transmit back to those who are dedicated to the destruction of Nazism and Fascism. He’s playing a dangerous—albeit necessary—game, which will carry him from Germany to Spain on a life-and-death mission on the eve of the Spanish Civil War.  The Presidential Agent: In 1937, Lanny’s boss from the Paris Peace Conference—now one of Roosevelt’s top advisors—connects him to the president. Appointed Presidential Agent 103, he embarks on a secret assignment that takes him back into the Third Reich as the Allied powers prepare to cede Czechoslovakia to Adolf Hitler in a futile attempt to avoid war. But Lanny’s motivations are not just political: The woman he loves has fallen into the brutal hands of the Gestapo, and Lanny will risk everything to save her.  Dragon Harvest: Lanny has earned the trust of Adolf Hitler and his inner circle, who are convinced the American art dealer is a “true believer” committed to their Fascist cause. But when Roosevelt’s secret agent learns of the Führer’s plans for conquest, his dire warnings to Neville Chamberlain and other reluctant European leaders fall on deaf ears. The bitter seeds sown decades earlier with the Treaty of Versailles are now bearing fruit, and there will be no stopping the Nazi war machine as it rolls relentlessly on toward Paris.
    Show book
  • Vincente Blasco Ibanez - A Short Story Collection - One of Spains finest writers who's work has been made into countless Hollywood films we have an incredible anthology translated to English for your ears - cover

    Vincente Blasco Ibanez - A Short...

    Vincente Blasco Ibanez

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Vicente Blasco Ibáñez was born in Valencia, Spain on 29th January 1867.  
     
    At university, he studied law and graduated in 1888 but never felt the urgency to practice - he was more interested in politics, journalism, literature and women.   
     
    Politically he was a militant Republican partisan and, in his youth, founded a newspaper, El Pueblo (The People). The newspaper was taken to court many times and he made many enemies. In one incident he was shot and almost killed. In 1896, Ibáñez was arrested and sentenced to a few months in prison. 
     
    Despite this colourful background he found time to write novels. His first published work was ‘La Araña Negra’ (The Black Spider) in 1892, a work that he later repudiated although at the time it was a useful vehicle for him to express his anti-clerical views. 
     
    In 1894, he published ‘Arroz y Tartana’ (Airs and Graces), about a late 19th Century widow in Valencia trying to keep up appearances in order to marry her daughters well.   
     
    Ibáñez’s next sequence of books studied rural life in the farmlands of Valencia and failed to gain much of an audience.   
     
    His writing now took on a new direction with its now familiar sensational and melodramatic themes in 1908 with ‘Sangre y Arena’ (Blood and Sand), which follows the career of Juan Gallardo from his poor beginnings as a child in Seville, to his rise to becoming a famous matador in Madrid 
     
    However, his greatest success was ‘Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse) in 1916, which tells a tangled tale of the French and German sons-in-law of an Argentinian land-owner who find themselves fighting on opposite sides in the First World War.  It was a literary and commercial sensation and became the best-selling book of 1919.  It also propelled Rudolph Valentino to stardom in the 1921 film. 
     
    Ironically his fame in the English-speaking world has come not as a novelist but as the stories behind some of Hollywood’s greatest silent movies. 
     
    Vicente Blasco Ibáñez died in Menton, France on January 28th, 1928, the day before his 61st birthday. 
     
    01 - Vicente Blasco Ibanez - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
    02 - Compassion by Vicente Blasco Ibanez 
    03 - Luxury by Vicente Blasco Ibanez 
    04 - Rabies by Vicente Blasco Ibanez 
    05 - The Last Lion by Vicente Blasco Ibanez 
    06 - The Windfall by Vicente Blasco Ibanez<
    Show book
  • Symzonia - A Voyage of Discovery (Unabridged) - cover

    Symzonia - A Voyage of Discovery...

    Nathaniel Ames

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery is a piece of fictional travel literature published on November 2, 1820, by Jonathan Seymour. It was written under the pseudonym Captain Adam Seaborn and its true authorship is uncertain, although stylometric analysis performed by Paul Collins suggests that the author was Nathaniel Ames. The book is premised on the earth's being hollow and was influenced by the theories of John Symmes. The account by the fictional Captain Seaborn details a voyage from the United States in which Captain Seaborn leads a crew of sailors to the center of the Earth.
    Show book