/lit/ - Literature

I woke up earlier than usual, and so have time to upload The Gambler before heading out.

It's a strange and miserable little story, and I always feel something between pity, loathing and disgust for every single character in it. The subject is one Dostoevsky himself was very familiar with - an addicition to gambling. Doestoevsky had basically lost all of his family's money at one point. He wrote this story very shortly afterwards as part of a deal with a publisher - that he would finish a book in just a couple of months in order to recieve payment, or else the publisher would get full and exclusive rights to all of his works for 9 years.
He managed it, and this is the result.

http://www.mediafire.com/?85xh5w155e251j1