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Richly illustrated gift edition with embossed embossing on the cover, which gives the book a special elegance, with three-sided gold trim and silk lasso. The novel "The Gambler" has strong autobiographical motifs, because Dostoevsky himself was a gambler. The story of the creation of this book is very interesting: lost to the last penny in Wiesbaden, desperate for money, the writer concluded a contract with the publisher, according to which he had to write a novel ... in 26 days. These completely implausible terms forced Dostoevsky, for the first time in his life, to use the services of a stenographer-secretary, to whom he dictated the text. This is how the young Anna Snitkina, the woman who was destined to become his wife and muse, entered the life of the genius....
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