Poor Folk & The Gambler
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
This volume brings together two of Fyodor Dostoevsky's most celebrated early works, Poor Folk and The Gambler, offering readers a rich portrait of human desperation, desire, and social struggle in 19th-century Russia. Poor Folk, Dostoevsky's debut novel, chronicles the tender and tragic epistolary relationship between a low-ranking government clerk and a young woman, both trapped in grinding poverty, illuminating the crushing weight of social inequality with profound empathy. The Gambler, drawn partly from Dostoevsky's own ruinous addiction to roulette, presents the compulsive world of a young tutor consumed by the fever of gambling, unraveling his psychology with startling intensity and dark wit. Translated from the Russian by C. J. Hogarth, with an introduction by Nikolay Andreyev, Ph.D., M.A., and illustrated with original frontispieces by Pietro Sarto and illustrations by Gunter Bohmer, this elegantly produced Heron Books edition presents both masterworks in a form worthy of their enduring literary stature.
Author: Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Format: Hardback
Published: 1968, Heron Books
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
This volume brings together two of Fyodor Dostoevsky's most celebrated early works, Poor Folk and The Gambler, offering readers a rich portrait of human desperation, desire, and social struggle in 19th-century Russia. Poor Folk, Dostoevsky's debut novel, chronicles the tender and tragic epistolary relationship between a low-ranking government clerk and a young woman, both trapped in grinding poverty, illuminating the crushing weight of social inequality with profound empathy. The Gambler, drawn partly from Dostoevsky's own ruinous addiction to roulette, presents the compulsive world of a young tutor consumed by the fever of gambling, unraveling his psychology with startling intensity and dark wit. Translated from the Russian by C. J. Hogarth, with an introduction by Nikolay Andreyev, Ph.D., M.A., and illustrated with original frontispieces by Pietro Sarto and illustrations by Gunter Bohmer, this elegantly produced Heron Books edition presents both masterworks in a form worthy of their enduring literary stature.