03237cam a22004093u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000360011324500250014926400510017430000470022533600260027233700260029833800360032450000820036050000310044250801550047352017060062853400490233465300260238365300240240965300620243365300350249570000510253070000490258170000460263070000300267685600590270685600430276599900190280876832UtSlPG20260610134759.0mcr n260607r20251910utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7ade2iso639-1 4aPG1 aDostoyevsky, Fyodor,d1821-188110aSämtliche Werke 21 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aTranslations of Игрокъ (Igrok) and Вечный муж (Vechny muzh).  aRelease date is 2025-09-07  aThe Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.  a"Sämtliche Werke 21 : Der Spieler. Der ewige Gatte : Zwei Romane" by Dostoyevsky is a collection of two novels written in the late 19th century. The volume couples a tale of gambling fever and romantic obsession at a European spa with a stark psychological study of jealousy and humiliation. In the first, a young Russian tutor is drawn to the roulette table and to the proud Polina amid a circle of schemers and pretenders; in the second, a haunted widower confronts a former rival. Across both, money, pride, and desire strip away social veneers among émigré Russians abroad.  The opening of Der Spieler follows Alexei, tutor to a Russian General’s family, as he rejoins them in Roulettenburg, where they posture as wealthy while quietly awaiting an inheritance from the ailing “Babushka.” The General dazzles and borrows, a slick French “marquis” and the calculating Mademoiselle Blanche circle, and the shy Englishman Mr. Astley silently adores Polina. Alexei’s charged, unequal bond with Polina dominates: she commands him to gamble for her, and he first wins a tidy sum, then rashly loses everything, even as he grows convinced he will surely win when playing for himself. Between tense dinners and nationalist spats, Alexei studies the casino’s rituals, the genteel pose versus plebeian hunger, and the household’s dependence on news of the old woman’s death. Polina hints at urgent debts and presses him for more money, while Alexei’s pride, passion, and fatalism harden into a vow to test his luck alone. The section ends with their strained exchange hanging in the air and the roulette wheel looming as his chosen fate. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cMuenchen: Piper, 1910  aPsychological fiction  aGamblers -- Fiction  aRussia -- Social life and customs -- 1533-1917 -- Fiction  aRussians -- Germany -- Fiction1 aFilosofov, Dmitriĭ Vladimirovich,d1872-19401 aMerezhkovsky, Dmitry Sergeyevich,d1865-19411 aMoeller van den Bruck, Arthur,d1876-19251 aRahsin, E. K.,d1886-19664 uhttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.a000537383240uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76832  c117557d117557