9780375719011-0375719016-The Double and The Gambler (Vintage Classics)

The Double and The Gambler (Vintage Classics)

ISBN-13: 9780375719011
ISBN-10: 0375719016
Edition: Reprint
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publication date: 2007
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback 368 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780375719011
ISBN-10: 0375719016
Edition: Reprint
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publication date: 2007
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback 368 pages

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The Double and The Gambler (Vintage Classics) (ISBN-13: 9780375719011 and ISBN-10: 0375719016), written by authors Fyodor Dostoevsky, was published by Vintage in 2007. With an overall rating of 4.0 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent The Double and The Gambler (Vintage Classics) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.59.

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The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have given us the definitive version of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s strikingly original short novels, The Double and The Gambler.The Double is a surprisingly modern hallucinatory nightmare–foreshadowing Kafka and Sartre–in which a minor official named Goliadkin becomes aware of a mysterious doppelganger, a man who has his name and his face and who gradually and relentlessly begins to displace him with his friends and colleagues. The Gambler is a stunning psychological portrait of a young man's exhilarating and destructive addiction to gambling, a compulsion that Dostoevsky–who once gambled away his young wife's wedding ring–knew intimately from his own experience. In chronicling the disastrous love affairs and gambling adventures of Alexei Ivanovich, Dostoevsky explores the irresistible temptation to look into the abyss of ultimate risk that he believed was an essential part of the Russian national character.

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