The Double and the Gambler

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Book Overview

The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have given us the definitive version of Fyodor Dostoevsky's strikingly original short novels, The Double and The Gambler.The Double is a surprisingly modern hallucinatory nightmare-foreshadowing Kafka and Sartre-in which a minor official named Goliadkin becomes aware of a mysterious doppelganger, a man who has his name and his face and who gradually and relentlessly begins to displace...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375719016
• ISBN13: 9780375719011
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.8"