A young tutor's obsession with roulette and a capricious woman consumes him at a German spa town, in a novel Dostoevsky dictated at breakneck speed to pay off his own gambling debts.
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A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway: “I chose the Constance Garnett edition of War and Peace, and The Gambler and Other Stories by Dostoevsky.”