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100 1 _aDostoyevsky, Fyodor,
_d1821-1881
245 1 0 _aSämtliche Werke 21
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aTranslations of Игрокъ (Igrok) and Вечный муж (Vechny muzh).
500 _aRelease date is 2025-09-07
508 _aThe Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.
520 _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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cMuenchen: Piper, 1910
653 _aPsychological fiction
653 _aGamblers -- Fiction
653 _aRussia -- Social life and customs -- 1533-1917 -- Fiction
653 _aRussians -- Germany -- Fiction
700 1 _aFilosofov, Dmitriĭ Vladimirovich,
_d1872-1940
700 1 _aMerezhkovsky, Dmitry Sergeyevich,
_d1865-1941
700 1 _aMoeller van den Bruck, Arthur,
_d1876-1925
700 1 _aRahsin, E. K.,
_d1886-1966
856 4 _uhttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.a0005373832
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76832
999 _c117557
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