The Gambler
6 hrs. 48 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Author
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Narrator
Maksim Korobitsyn
Narrator
Maksim Korobitsyn
Description
An audiobook in every sense. A story of gambling with autobiographical touches—an indescribable passion for playing, on the edge of madness—everything is waiting for the listener in the audiobook.
The novel “The Gambler” has strong autobiographical motifs, because the gambler was none other than Dostoevsky himself.
The creation story of this book is very interesting: having lost down to the last penny in Wiesbaden, a writer desperately in need of money entered into a contract with a publishing house, according to which he had to write a novel… in 26 days. Those completely unbelievable deadlines forced Dostoevsky, for the first time in his life, to use the services of a stenographer secretary—into whose ear he dictated the text. That’s how the young Anna Snitkina entered the life of genius—a woman destined to become his wife and muse…
The novel “The Gambler” has strong autobiographical motifs, because the gambler was none other than Dostoevsky himself.
The creation story of this book is very interesting: having lost down to the last penny in Wiesbaden, a writer desperately in need of money entered into a contract with a publishing house, according to which he had to write a novel… in 26 days. Those completely unbelievable deadlines forced Dostoevsky, for the first time in his life, to use the services of a stenographer secretary—into whose ear he dictated the text. That’s how the young Anna Snitkina entered the life of genius—a woman destined to become his wife and muse…
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