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    The Gambler
    The Gambler
    The Gambler
    Audiobook6 hours

    The Gambler

    Written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Narrated by Bill Boerst

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    About this audiobook

    The Gambler 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 under a strict deadline so he could pay off gambling debts.

    An Author's Republic audio production.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthor's Republic
    Release dateMay 3, 2016
    ISBN9781518925931
    Author

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Fyodor Dostoevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. Between 1838 and 1843 he studied at the St Petersburg Engineering Academy. His first work of fiction was the epistolary novel Poor Folk (1846), which met with a generally favourable response. However, his immediately subsequent works were less enthusiastically received. In 1849 Dostoevsky was arrested as a member of the socialist Petrashevsky circle, and subjected to a mock execution. He suffered four years in a Siberian penal settlement and then another four years of enforced military service. He returned to writing in the late 1850s and travelled abroad in the 1860s. It was during the last twenty years of his life that he wrote the iconic works, such as Notes from the Underground (1864), Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1868) and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), which were to form the basis of his formidable reputation. He died in 1881.

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    • 3/5
      Monotonous boring no passion. Narrator did not give the story what it deserves
    • 3/5
      It wasn't too bad, but I expected more from this author. Apparently he wrote this book in one month to pay a gambling debt, and although it deals with plenty of gamblers, there's not much in depth insight to their addiction. The characters were stiff and uninteresting. Rich Europeans, wasting their time and throwing their money away. I probably missed a lot of the nuances and hidden criticisms of real people, but I found those portrayed clichéd and superficially drawn. There's not much by way of a plot either. Disappointing.