Publisher's Synopsis

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 gambling life at fashionable German watering holes.

Book information

ISBN: 9780486290812
Publisher: Dover Publications Inc
Imprint: Dover Publications
Pub date:
Edition: New edition
Language: English
Number of pages: 117
Weight: 104g
Height: 208mm
Width: 133mm
Spine width: 8mm