Download or read book The Gambler Wife written by Andrew D. Kaufman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINALIST FOR THE PEN JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY “Feminism, history, literature, politics—this tale has all of that, and a heroine worthy of her own turn in the spotlight.” —Therese Anne Fowler, bestselling author of Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald A revelatory new portrait of the courageous woman who saved Dostoyevsky’s life—and became a pioneer in Russian literary history In the fall of 1866, a twenty-year-old stenographer named Anna Snitkina applied for a position with a writer she idolized: Fyodor Dostoyevsky. A self-described “girl of the sixties,” Snitkina had come of age during Russia’s first feminist movement, and Dostoyevsky—a notorious radical turned acclaimed novelist—had impressed the young woman with his enlightened and visionary fiction. Yet in person she found the writer “terribly unhappy, broken, tormented,” weakened by epilepsy, and yoked to a ruinous gambling addiction. Alarmed by his condition, Anna became his trusted first reader and confidante, then his wife, and finally his business manager—launching one of literature’s most turbulent and fascinating marriages. The Gambler Wife offers a fresh and captivating portrait of Anna Dostoyevskaya, who reversed the novelist’s freefall and cleared the way for two of the most notable careers in Russian letters—her husband’s and her own. Drawing on diaries, letters, and other little-known archival sources, Andrew Kaufman reveals how Anna protected her family from creditors, demanding in-laws, and her greatest romantic rival, through years of penury and exile. We watch as she navigates the writer’s self-destructive binges in the casinos of Europe—even hazarding an audacious turn at roulette herself—until his addiction is conquered. And, finally, we watch as Anna frees her husband from predatory contracts by founding her own publishing house, making Anna the first solo female publisher in Russian history. The result is a story that challenges ideas of empowerment, sacrifice, and female agency in nineteenth-century Russia—and a welcome new appraisal of an indomitable woman whose legacy has been nearly lost to literary history.

Download or read book The Gambler written by Shanna Bell and published by Shanna Bell. This book was released on 2021-03-05 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A geeky girl who is being blackmailed... A convict with a thirst for revenge... Luca. I will get out from behind these bars. I’ll make those who put me here pay. All I need is her; the lock to my cell. Tess. I’m a geeky hacktivist; the internet is my oyster. But that’s not going to save my family. I need him; a Kraken to beat a shark. Game on...

Download or read book Gambler in Love written by Outlet and published by Bantam Dell Publishing Group. This book was released on 1987-02-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gambler in Love written by Patricia Matthews and published by Century. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Never Love a Gambler written by Keith Ridgway and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never Love a Gambler is a showcase for the exceptional talents of Keith Ridgway. The Times (London) praised his stories as "flawlessly structured yarns told in lovingly crafted prose." Ridgway's characters negotiate their way through love, madness, lust, anger, religious obsession, crime, and absence in stories told with innovative mastery -- brightened by fiercely vivid dialogues. Never Love a Gambler is a mental rust-remover: refreshing, bracing, and often violently funny.

Download or read book Gambler s Love written by Amii Lorin and published by Belgrave House. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vichy Sweigart knew better than to fall for a gambler. She’d done it before and had been badly hurt. Gamblers were ninety percent charm and one hundred percent opportunist. But there was something that drew her to Ben Larkin, more than the passion she felt for him—but that, too! And Vichy very much feared that this burning passion was turning into the fire of love. Contemporary Romance by Amii Lorin; originally published by Dell Candlelight Ecstasy Romance

Download or read book Gambler S Love written by Vishal Gandhi and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gamblers Love is based on a true story and how love, luck, a chance encounter, and one bad decision can change your life. Its about how the love for a beautiful woman can change your lifes destiny. One day an instant love attraction changes Shawns life, and every Valentines Day he sends roses to the love of his life, and every year he adds a little surprise. One night while working at his rental car company, a late night encounter with a customer causes a chain of effects that leads Shawn down a spiraling path. Within only a few days, he loses everything.

Download or read book The Gambler written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Chance written by Amir D. Aczel and published by High Stakes. This book was released on 2006-05-18 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated mathematician Amir D Aczel sets his sights on the probability theory - the branch of mathematics that measures the likelihood of a random event. What is commonly called 'luck' has mathematical roots - and in Aczel's capable hands readers learn to increase their odds of success in everything from true love to the stock market.

Download or read book Gambler in Love written by Patricia Matthews and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catharine "Cat" Carnahan grew up on the Erie Canal, working side by side with her father on their boat, towing freight from Albany to Buffalo. Gutsy and independent, she holds her own with the roughnecks who work the canal, including the brutal, lascivious Simon Maphis. She has yet to discover her own passionate nature -- until she and her father rescue a mysterious stranger who has been beaten by thugs. His head woulds have left him with no memory of his past, but his gold pocket watch identifies him as Morgan Kane. Obviously a gentleman, he gratefully accepts Cat's offer to recuperate aboard the boat, doing odd jobs for his keep. It is Morgan's presence that finally awakens Cat to her own womanhood. And it is Morgan who fulfills her passion one languid evening on the canal. But Cat's new-found love turns to revulsion when Morgan becomes involved with the lottery company that has ruined the lives of so many canal men, taking their hard-earned cash in exchange for false promises of instant wealth. What she does not know is that Morgan's memory has returned -- and that he is on a dangerous mission to expose the corruption of the lottery by working from the inside. Rejecting Morgan, Cat tries to forget him in the arms of an idealistic young doctor who serves the canal families. But when Simon Maphis, infuriated by Cat's many rejections, tries to kill her and her father -- and succeeds in destroying their boat -- Morgan returns, determined to claim her, tame her and marry her. Investing in a new boat, he persuades Cat to try for the most coveted cargo on the canal -- the U.S. Mail. But Simon Maphis has not yet finished with his evil schemes.--Goodreads.com

Download or read book The Gambler written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Love is a Gambler written by Maysie Greig and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gambler s Love written by Vishal Gandhi and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gambler s Love is based on a true story and how love, luck, a chance encounter, and one bad decision can change your life. It s about how the love for a beautiful woman can change your life s destiny. One day an instant love attraction changes Shawn s life, and every Valentine s Day he sends roses to the love of his life, and every year he adds a little surprise. One night while working at his rental car company, a late night encounter with a customer causes a chain of effects that leads Shawn down a spiraling path. Within only a few days, he loses everything.

Download or read book Gambling Wizards written by Richard W. Munchkin and published by Huntington Press Inc. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get into the minds of the greatest gamblers of all time. Read in-depth interviews with eight masters of the games. Learn how they think, how they play, and what made them successful. The interview subjects include: Billy Walters (sports betting), Chip Reese (poker), Doyle Brunson (poker), Mike Svobodny (backgammon), Stan Tomchin (backgammon and sports betting), Cathy Hulbert (blackjack and poker), Alan Woods (blackjack and horse racing), and Tommy Hyland (blackjack).

Download or read book Hats Eyeglasses written by Martha Frankel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-02-14 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martha Frankel grew up in a warm, loving family of diehard gamblers, where her father?s poker games and her mother?s mah-jongg blended happily with big pots of delicious food and endless gossip. As kids, she and her cousins bet on everything?from which of their Weight Watching mothers would lose the most to who could hold their breath longest underwater or eat the most matzo. But once Frankel left for college and later became a successful entertainment journalist, gambling didn?t factor much into her life. She thought her family legacy had passed her by. In this ?fast-paced and amazingly funny? (The Times- Picayune) memoir, Frankel traces her love affair with poker, an obsession that didn?t hit until her mid-forties. And she was good at poker. Frankel won routinely, whether she was playing in her Wednesday-night poker game or in one of the seedy, out-of-the-way rooms she always managed to find when on assignment. But all this changed when she discovered online poker. It was the beginning of what one of her uncles called ?hats and eyeglasses,? a term used to describe those times when you?re losing so bad your ship is sinking until all that?s left on the water?s surface are your hat and eyeglasses. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Hats & Eyeglasses is a tale of passion, addiction? and those times in life when we almost lose our shirt.

Download or read book THE GAMBLER S HEART written by Gayle Wilson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beauty Had Wed The Beast, And London Was Rife With Rumor What really went on in the marriage bed of Lady Madelyn Fairchild and Jean-Luc Gavereau? For a celebrated beauty of the ton could never have gone willingly into the arms of a common gambler scarred in body and soul! Madelyn had looked beyond the fire-ravaged visage Jean-Luc wore like a badge of defiance and had seen her salvation. A true lover who swore he would vanquish the ghosts of her past, even as she vowed to sacrifice everything to safeguard his future…! "Another triumph for Gayle Wilson."—Affaire de Coeur

Download or read book Memoir of a Gambler written by J Richardson and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1982 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: