<p>This book contains several tables of HTML content to make reading easier.<br><br>The Gambler was written under the pressure of crushing debt. It is a stunning psychological portrait of a young man's exhilarating and destructive addiction, a compulsion that Dostoevsky?who once gambled away his young wife's wedding ring?knew intimately from his own experience. In the disastrous love affairs and gambling adventures of his character, Alexei Ivanov...