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 t...
| Main Author: | Kaufman, Andrew D. 1969- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Riverhead Books,
2021.
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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.