The Gambler

Fyodor Dostoevsky

⏱ 8 minRussian classic

A tutor in a ruined Russian family stakes his love, his freedom and his soul on the roulette wheel. Dostoevsky's feverish novella of addiction, written in a month to pay a gambling debt.

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