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The Gambler (Modern Plays)

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ISBN-10: 0413728900

ISBN-13: 9780413728906

Edition: N/A

Authors: F. M. Dostoevsky

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The film script for a major film from Channel Four Films and Canal+ Image International, from director Karoly Makk and producer Marc Vlessing. Starring Michael Gambon, Jodhi May, Polly Walker, Dominic West and Luise Rainer. Dostoevsky, impoverished by gambling debts and desperate, makes a Faustian contract with his publisher: In return for an advance he agrees to deliver a novel within a year or lose all rights to his existing and future works. Twenty-seven days before the manuscript is due, he has still not begun work. Despairing, he hires a stenographer, Ann Snitkina, whose passionate determination urges him on to finish the book, saving his career. This true story of Dostoevsky's love…    
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Book details

List price: $15.86
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Pages: 160
Size: 4.37" wide x 6.55" long x 0.34" tall
Weight: 0.198