The Gambler Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett (Translator) Psychologically probing novel concerns the gambling episodes, tangled love affairs and complicated lives of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young gambler; Polina Alexandrovna, the woman he loves; a pair of French adventurers and other characters. Bleak picture of the fatal attractions of gambling with wonderful characterization, faithful depiction of life ... more »among the gambling set at fashionable German watering holes.« less