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Dostoyevsky’s Poor Folk & The Gambler - Everyman, 1962


Title: Poor Folk & The Gambler
Author: Dostoyevsky
Publisher: Everyman Paperback
Publication Date: 1962
Format: Softcover
Condition: This book is in good condition for its age other than some signs of wear.

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Reader's note

Many readers imperfectly acquainted with the work of the great Russian novelist, Dostoyevsky, think of him as a man devoid of humour. A reading of Poor Folk, his first novel, and The Gambler, a later story, exposes this fallacy. In Poor Folk Dostoyevsky depicts an out-at-elbows minor official in the public service as a writer of love-letters to a seamstress - a woman to whom Makar Dievushkin has ‘devoted his life in its entirety’. The scene changes in The Gambler. Here Dostoyevsky depicts the fashionable spas and casinos of Europe, and, as he himself has a passion for gambling, identifies himself with the wretched victim urged by the woman who could save him from himself.