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The Gambler was written under the pressure of crushing debt It is a stunning psychological portrait of a young mans exhilarating and destructive addiction a compulsion that Dostoevskywho once gambled away his young wifes wedding ringknew intimately from his own experience In the disastrous love affairs and gambling adventures of his character Alexei Ivanovich Dostoevsky e...