The Gambler

"I like this novel by Dostoevsky , due to the extraordinary background on how it was written, at the same time as he was writing Crime and Punishment . He had a certain time frame and a page count of 160 pages to submit within four months. He had agreed a contract in September that he had to submit a new novel to the publishers, Stellovsky, by the first of November. In the event of failure to produce this book Stellovsky would be given the rights to reprint all Dostoyevsky’s past and future work at any time and without further payment. The result was The Gambler ."