Name
The Gambler: Alexandria in Vegas Edition
Description
"And I believed in my system ... within a quarter of an hour I won 600 francs. This whetted my appetite. Suddenly I started to lose, couldn't control myself and lost everything. After that I ... took my last money, and went to play ... I was carried away by this unusual good fortune and I risked all 35 napoleons and lost them all. I had 6 napoleons d'or left to pay the landlady and for the journey. In Geneva I pawned my watch." - The Gambler, Fyodor Dostoevsky
This is the Alexandria in Vegas special edition collection of Fyodor Dostoevsky's classic novel of gambling and obsession.
First published in 1887
epub by Project Gutenberg