notes from the underground and the gambler

It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. In The Gambler, the gambler is not so addicted as the surprising Grandmother, who comically appears to put all of her money on zero and red in roulette while those family members who stand to inherit it when she dies nervously look on. It is considered by many to be the worlds first existentialist novel.

Notes from the Underground (1864) is one of the most. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Buy Notes from the Underground, and The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky for 31.00 at Mighty Ape NZ. Notes from the Underground and the Gambler has a Lexile level of 1050L by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ISBN: 9780192836267 Tags: Classic fiction (pre c 1945). Specially commissioned for the World's Classics, this new translation includes a full editorial apparatus. The Gambler (1866), set in the fictional town of Roulettenberg, explores the compulsive nature of gambling, one of the author's own vices and a subject he describes with extraordinary acumen and drama. A probing, speculative book, often regarded as a forerunner of the Existentialist movement, it examines the important political and philosophical questions that were current in Russia and Europe at the time. Notes from the Underground (1864) is one of the most profound works of nineteenth-century literature.

Notes from the underground and the gambler