The Gambler Chapter 17

from The Dostoyevsky Library · host Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In which the narrator reflects on the depths to which his gambling has sunk him, recounting various episodes of desperate fortune and misfortune, and meets an old friend whose candid words both wound and provoke him to a faint hope of renewal. Amidst the sordid environs of Homburg and the haunting presence of familiar faces, he contemplates the enigma of human nature and the paradoxes that govern loyalty, love, and ruin.

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