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# The Double and The Gambler

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Buy The Double and The Gambler by Dostoevsky, Fyodor, Pevear, Richard, Volokhonsky, Larissa online on desertcart.ae at best prices. ✓ Fast and free shipping ✓ free returns ✓ cash on delivery available on eligible purchase.

Review: Excellent. Good packing
Review: Llegó en buenas condiciones y a un super precio, definitivamente una gran adquisición para cualquier fan de este gran escritor.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #15,923 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #12 in Russian & Soviet Literature #92 in Short Stories & Anthologies #132 in U.S. Literature |
| Customer reviews | 4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars (236) |
| Dimensions  | 13.21 x 2.03 x 20.32 cm |
| Edition  | Reprint |
| ISBN-10  | 0375719016 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0375719011 |
| Item weight  | 272 g |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 368 pages |
| Publication date  | 16 January 2007 |
| Publisher  | Vintage Books |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by A***I on 20 April 2016*

Excellent. Good packing

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by O***O on 7 January 2025*

Llegó en buenas condiciones y a un super precio, definitivamente una gran adquisición para cualquier fan de este gran escritor.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by D***S on 13 December 2014*

At school our sixth form was split into maths/science and arts. One day in the library I saw a fellow on the arts side looking at this sentence: "La Vie avec un grand V," which he'd translated as, "Life with a big V." I tapped him on the shoulder. "It's 'Life with a capital L'." But he wasn't having it, especially not from a maths/science man. "It says V, not L, Morris." And that's how I felt about this translation by Pevear and Volokhonsky, who are the premier Russian-to-English translators of the era, according to The New Yorker. Award-winning, it says here. But they had me struggling through The Double, and maybe it's my maths/science background, but I found lines like this confusing: "Announce me, my friend, say, thus and so, to explain. And I'll thank you well, my dear..." Compare that to the Constance Garnett translation: "Announce me, my friend, say something or other to explain. I’ll reward you, my good man - ” At other times we're told that Mr Goliadkin fled "from the shower of flicks hanging over him". Mrs Garnett's translation may have been less precisely accurate, but it wouldn't leave the brain in palpitations. In spite of that the brilliance of the novelette is undimmed. You might even argue (I'm not) that rendering Goliadkin's experiences in something that is close to but not quite comprehensible English enhances the sense of nightmare. At any rate, right up to the curiously translated final paragraph (for which, in the absence of a footnote, you'll need a degree in Russian social history) it's a completely spellbinding piece of work. I was less captivated by The Gambler. Dostoevsky knocked it off in a month to satisfy a rapacious businessman who otherwise would have owned everything he wrote for the next nine years. I was amused by the narrator's explanations of why, when a particular number comes up at roulette a couple of times, it therefore can't come up again for a while - until I discovered that Dostoevsky was for a long time a gambling addict himself and probably believed that. So: a reliable narrator without much self-awareness fails to recognize his true love in life. It does capture a sense of addiction and panic, which probably was helped by the thought of what would happen if Dostoevsky didn't meet his deadline. The Gambler doesn't really deserve to stand alongside The Double, but there it is, bringing the average for the book down to 4 stars.

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