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By all accounts, Dostoevsky wrote The Gambler on a deadline, ironically, to pay gambling debts. No better way to prove invention's parentage is necessity. I recently missed another Classics Club spin, only to realise I still haven't performed the function of reviewing my last Classics Club read for Spin #39. Hence the necessity of my… Continue reading Rye, Rabble, and Roulette: The Gambler Review
The "I can't find a blurb because everybody already knows or doesn't care what this book is about" solution: An Encyclopedia Britannica entry on War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy War and Peace, historical novel by Leo Tolstoy, originally published as Voyna i mir in 1865–69. This panoramic study of early 19th-century Russian society, noted for its mastery of realistic… Continue reading It Got Involved: War and Peace Review
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