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The gambler wife a true story of love, risk, and the woman who saved Dostoyevsky

"An intimate new portrait of the bold and determined woman who saved Dostoyevsky's life--and became a pioneer in Russian literary history. In the fall of 1866--against the backdrop of Russia's first feminist movement--an independent-minded young stenographer named Anna Snitkina went to work for a wr...

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Main Author: Kaufman, Andrew D. (Andrew David), 1969- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Riverhead Books, 2021.
Subjects:
Dostoevskai͡a, Anna Grigorʹevna Snitkina, > 1846-1918.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, > 1821-1881
Authors' spouses > Russia > Biography.
Novelists, Russian > 19th century > Biography.
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The gamble. The decent thing to do
  • The gambler
  • A novel proposal
  • What is to be done?
  • Crossing the threshold
  • The reckoning. A new beginning
  • The "gambler wife"
  • Turgenev
  • Life and fate
  • The possessed
  • The final spin
  • The payoff. The publisher
  • A test
  • At the prophet's side
  • Death of a husband
  • The long twilight. High priestess of Dostoyevsky
  • Death of a wife
  • Epilogue: The afterlife of Anna Dostoyevskaya.

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