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who will risk everything for her

who sought detente with Germany-might have derailed the war or brought it to a different end

and powerfully argued

revealing both the cruel reality her relatives endured and her own experiences as an intelligence officer

The Gambler Small Beer Press who will risk everything forIn this dark and compelling short novel, Fyodor Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young tutor working in the household of an imperious Russian general. Alexey tries to break through the wall of the established order in Russia, but instead becomes mired in the endless downward spiral of betting and loss. His intense and inescapable addiction is accentuated by his affair with the Generals cruel yet seductively adept niece, Polina. In