Игрокъ

About this book

The Gambler (Russian: Игрокъ, romanized: Igrok; modern spelling Игрок) is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky about a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian general. The novella reflects Dostoevsky's own addiction to roulette, which was in more ways than one the inspiration for the book: Dostoevsky completed the novella in 1866 under a strict deadline to pay off gambling debts.

Subjects

• chance -- fiction
• compulsive gamblers
• continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
• families -- fiction
• fiction
• fiction, action & adventure
• fiction, general
• gamblers
• gamblers -- fiction
• gambling -- fiction
• germany, fiction
• manners and customs
• psychological fiction
• russians -- germany -- fiction
• social life and customs
• translations into english