# The Gambler

Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881; Hogarth, C. J. (Charles James), 1869-1942 [Translator]

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2197

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Gambler+Dostoyevsky&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

At length I returned from two weeks leave of absence to find that my patrons had arrived three days ago in Roulettenberg. I received from them a welcome quite different to that which I had expected. The General eyed me coldly, greeted me in rather haughty fashion, and dismissed me to pay my respects to his sister. It was clear that from _somewhere_ money had been acquired. I thought I could even detect a certain shamefacedness in the General’s glance. Maria Philipovna, too, seemed distraught, and conversed with me with an air of detachment. Nevertheless, she took the money which I handed to her, counted it, and listened to what I had to tell. To luncheon there were expected that day a Mon...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-2197/chapters/1/index.md)