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1 online resource (1 audio file (10hr., 50 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Naxos AudioBooks complete classics.
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Nicholas Boulton. |
| Summary |
Considered one of the first existentialist novels, Notes from Underground contains one of the most unsettling characters in 19th-century fiction. Resentful, cruel, entitled and pitiful, Dostoyevsky's Underground Man is a disturbing human being bent on humiliating others for his own amusement. He despises modern society and stews in a self-imposed misery, articulated through his bitter, contradictory monologues about torment and alienation. The Gambler is perhaps the most personal of Dostoyevsky's novels. Written to pay off the author's own gambling debts, the book follows the obsessions and anxieties of Alexey Ivanovitch, a sympathetic character who has given in to the forces of addiction. His despair is compounded by his love for the enigmatic Polina Alexandrovna, a cold and distant figure who exploits his desperation. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Russia -- History -- 1801-1917 -- Fiction.
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Russia -- Officials and employees -- Fiction.
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Russians -- Germany -- Fiction.
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Gamblers -- Fiction.
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Compulsive gambling -- Fiction.
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Chance -- Fiction.
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Container of (work): Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881.
Zapiski iz podpolʹi︠a︡. English.
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Container of (work): Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881.
Igrok. English.
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Translation of (work): Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881.
Zapiski iz podpolʹi︠a︡.
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Translation of (work): Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881.
Igrok.
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Boulton, Nicholas, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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Gambler.
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| ISBN |
9781781982020 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1781982023 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12298601 |
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