The Gamblers And Marriage

Author : Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol,Alexander Berkman
Publisher : Digireads.Com
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1420949926

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The Gamblers and Marriage by Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol,Alexander Berkman Pdf

Nikolai Vasilievitch Gogol, the Moliere of Russia, was born in the sunny Ukraine in March, 1809, and died in Moscow forty-three years later. The author of Russia's famous national comedy, The Inspector-General, Gogol was the first dramatist of his country to write plays on the Western European model, even as his friend Pushkin was the first Russian poet to introduce the Western strain into the literature of his people. In the comedy Marriage, which Gogol began in 1832 as The Wooers and completed only in 1842 in its final form, the author attacked in his inimitable manner the modern problem of escape from marriage. By unexcelled, mirth-provoking characterization, and with delightful irony, Gogol satirized the fear of marriage inherent in the soul of the average man. The Gamblers is a masterpiece of dramatic suspense, and has been hailed in Europe as a model for plot development. With a few strokes, Gogol drew this set of characters whose purpose in life is so similar, yet whose manners are so individual. When The Gamblers was first produced in Berlin, it made a striking impression on the audience whose mystification was complete to the very end.

Author : NIKOLAI VASIL. GOGOL
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1420949934

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The Gamblers and Marriage by NIKOLAI VASIL. GOGOL Pdf

Author : Николай Васильевич Гоголь
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015009286785

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The Gamblers by Николай Васильевич Гоголь Pdf

Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408148617

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Gogol Three Plays by Nikolai Gogol Pdf

This collection contains Gogol's three completed plays The Government Inspector, which satirises a corrupt society was regarded by Nabokov as the greatest play in the Russian language and is still widely studied in schools and universities: "I resolved to gather into one heap everything that was bad in Russia which I was aware of at that time, all the injustices being perpetrated in those places, and in those circumstances that especially cried out for justice, and tried to hold them all up to ridicule, at one fell swoop." (Nikolai Gogol) Marriage is a comedy about the business of matchmaking and matrimony; The Gamblers is an exoriating piece about the excesses of the Moscow aristocracy. "Two and two make five, if not the square root of five, and it all happens quite naturally in Gogol's world... Gogol was a strange creature, but then genius is always strange" (Vladimir Nabokov)

Author : Andrew D. Kaufman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780525537151

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The Gambler Wife by Andrew D. Kaufman Pdf

FINALIST FOR THE PEN JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY “Feminism, history, literature, politics—this tale has all of that, and a heroine worthy of her own turn in the spotlight.” —Therese Anne Fowler, bestselling author of Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald A revelatory new portrait of the courageous woman who saved Dostoyevsky’s life—and became a pioneer in Russian literary history In the fall of 1866, a twenty-year-old stenographer named Anna Snitkina applied for a position with a writer she idolized: Fyodor Dostoyevsky. A self-described “girl of the sixties,” Snitkina had come of age during Russia’s first feminist movement, and Dostoyevsky—a notorious radical turned acclaimed novelist—had impressed the young woman with his enlightened and visionary fiction. Yet in person she found the writer “terribly unhappy, broken, tormented,” weakened by epilepsy, and yoked to a ruinous gambling addiction. Alarmed by his condition, Anna became his trusted first reader and confidante, then his wife, and finally his business manager—launching one of literature’s most turbulent and fascinating marriages. The Gambler Wife offers a fresh and captivating portrait of Anna Dostoyevskaya, who reversed the novelist’s freefall and cleared the way for two of the most notable careers in Russian letters—her husband’s and her own. Drawing on diaries, letters, and other little-known archival sources, Andrew Kaufman reveals how Anna protected her family from creditors, demanding in-laws, and her greatest romantic rival, through years of penury and exile. We watch as she navigates the writer’s self-destructive binges in the casinos of Europe—even hazarding an audacious turn at roulette herself—until his addiction is conquered. And, finally, we watch as Anna frees her husband from predatory contracts by founding her own publishing house, making Anna the first solo female publisher in Russian history. The result is a story that challenges ideas of empowerment, sacrifice, and female agency in nineteenth-century Russia—and a welcome new appraisal of an indomitable woman whose legacy has been nearly lost to literary history.

Author : Desmond O'Grady
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Australian drama
ISBN : 0868050369

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Marriage Gamblers by Desmond O'Grady Pdf

Author : Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547720676

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The Gambler (The Unabridged Hogarth Translation) by Fyodor Dostoevsky Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Gambler (The Unabridged Hogarth Translation)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Gambler is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky about a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian general. The novella reflects Dostoyevsky's own addiction to roulette, which was in more ways than one the inspiration for the book: Dostoyevsky completed the novella under a strict deadline to pay off gambling debts. The Gambler is set in the casino of the fictional German spa town of Roulettenburg and follows the misfortunes of the young tutor Alexei Ivanovich. As he succumbs to the temptations of the roulette table, he finds himself engaged in a battle of wills with Polina, the woman he unrequitedly loves. With an unforgettable cast of fellow gamblers and figures from European high society, this darkly comic novel of greed and self-destruction reveals Dostoevsky at his satirical and psychological best. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky ( 1821 – 1881) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and philosopher. Dostoyevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the context of the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest and most prominent psychologists in world literature.

Author : John Pearson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781446494714

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The Gamblers by John Pearson Pdf

Britain's foremost writer on crime turns to the disappearance of Lord Lucan. The basis of the upcoming ITV drama, Lucan, starring Rory Kinnear and Christopher Eccleston For over thirty years, John Pearson has provided us with literary exposures of some of the most enigmatic people and underground organisations of our modern world. The Gamblers follows the fortunes of five men at the centre of the ultra-fashionable Clermont Set: the Clermont Club's eccentric founder John Aspinall; Dominic Elwes, who was to betray the Set's code of silence; the socialite owner of Annabel's, Mark Birley; the womanising, multi millionaire James Goldsmith; and the infamous Lord 'Lucky' Lucan. At the heart of the Set lay a belief that risk-takers are the people who make civilisation tick.Cruel, heartless and snobbish, they gambled with their fortunes and kept a stiff upper lip when they lost.This and a loyalty to each other that transcended everything else enabled them to rise above crises such as the long affair between Birley's wife and James Goldsmith, and the facial mutilation of the Birley's son by one of Aspinall's tigers.Pearson revels in the charisma, charm and wit of these dastardly but debonair millionaires, and reveals how their code led to one of the great unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century.

Author : Richard W. Munchkin
Publisher : Huntington Press Inc
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780929712680

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Gambling Wizards by Richard W. Munchkin Pdf

Get into the minds of the greatest gamblers of all time. Read in-depth interviews with eight masters of the games. Learn how they think, how they play, and what made them successful. The interview subjects include: Billy Walters (sports betting), Chip Reese (poker), Doyle Brunson (poker), Mike Svobodny (backgammon), Stan Tomchin (backgammon and sports betting), Cathy Hulbert (blackjack and poker), Alan Woods (blackjack and horse racing), and Tommy Hyland (blackjack).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:640075721

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The Gamblers by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alban K. Forcione
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400886050

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Cervantes and the Humanist Vision by Alban K. Forcione Pdf

This book sets the Novelas ejemplares in the mainstream of Christian Humanism and shows that their narrative forms manifest the breadth of the Christian Humanist vision as much as does the more overtly revolutionary Don Quixote. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : O. Classe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Authors
ISBN : 1884964362

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Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L by O. Classe Pdf

Author : William Le Queux
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Gamblers by William Le Queux Pdf

Yet these chapters of an eventful personal history, remarkable though they may appear, nevertheless form an unusual story — a combination of circumstances which will be found startling and curious, idyllic and tragic. Reader, I would confess all, if I dared, but each of us has a skeleton in the cupboard, both you and I, for alas! I am no exception to the general rule prevailing among women. If compelled by a natural instinct to suppress one single fact, I may add that it has little or nothing to do with the circumstances here related. It concerns only myself, and no woman cares to supply food for gossips at her own expense...FROM THE BOOKS.

Author : Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:10862126

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The Gamblers by Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ Pdf

Author : Mikal Aasved
Publisher : Charles C Thomas Publisher
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Compulsive gambling
ISBN : 9780398084127

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THE SOCIOLOGY OF GAMBLING by Mikal Aasved Pdf

This is the second in a series of books intended to review and evaluate the most popular and influential explanations for gambling and the many research studies that have been conducted to confirm or refute them. This book focuses on the contributions of specialists in the social sciences, most of whom are convinced that gambling is a consequence of the social or subcultural environment in which the gambler lives. To further the understanding of why people gamble, investigators went to places where gambling occurred and spent time among and interacted with the gamblers. Some attended Gamblers Anonymous meetings and others became participant observers in gambling establishments by becoming employed as roulette croupiers or card dealers. Topics covered include the gambler’s point of view, the researcher’s point of view, social structure, economics, statistical tests of earlier ideas, special populations, ‘‘armchair’’ theories, gambling and the public, problem correlates, and risk factors. In addition, a critique of the qualitative and quantitative studies involving survey research methods and interview research methods is given that provides theoretical explanations for why people gamble. Numerous results from geographical surveys are provided, as well as tables that examine the research of problem gambling.