'40,000 francs, which lay before him in a heap of gold and banknotes.'
Written in twenty-six days to pay off Dostoyevsky's own roulette debts, The Gambler is a graphic psychological study of addiction, accompanied here by a brilliant short story of excruciating social embarrassment.
Ten new titles in the colourful, small-format, portable new Pocket Penguins series
- ISBN10 0241259584
- ISBN13 9780241259580
- Publish Date 4 August 2016
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Imprint Penguin Classics
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 272
- Language English