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"The Gambler" - a story about the passion for gambling, to which the writer himself was subjected.
The main character of the work - Alexei Ivanovich, a home teacher, in love with the stepdaughter of the head of the family, Pauline. In order to help her, he begins to play roulette.
Gambling, all-consuming passion for the game, vicissitudes of fate and love collisions involve the heroes of the novel in a mad and endless whirlpool of events that take place at a fashionable resort in Germany.
The main character of the work - Alexei Ivanovich, a home teacher, in love with the stepdaughter of the head of the family, Pauline. In order to help her, he begins to play roulette.
Gambling, all-consuming passion for the game, vicissitudes of fate and love collisions involve the heroes of the novel in a mad and endless whirlpool of events that take place at a fashionable resort in Germany.