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THE DOUBLE AND THE GAMBLER

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From: The Village Voice
Date: 20051207
Author:Strong, Benjamin

THE DOUBLE AND THE GAMBLER By Fyodor Dostoevsky Translatedby Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky Everyman's Library, 336 pp. $20

The couple: Two Dostoevskv novels get a new translation

Continuing installments of his latest serial thriller, Crime and Punishment, were due in October 1866, but more pressing for Fyodor Dostoevsky, in debt as usual, was the new book he hadn't started and which he owed his shady publisher by November-or else, according to their contract, he would forfeit rights to all his titles for nine years. Faced with this deadline he hired a 20-year-old stenographer, Anna ...

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