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	The Gambler (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Gambler is a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky about a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian General.
		The Gambler chronicles a period of time spent in a spa town in Germany - (although not directly mentioned, this refers to the town of Baden-Baden) in the mid-19th century.
		The novella reflects Dostoevsky's own addiction to roulette, which was in more ways than one the inspiration for the book.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Gambler_(novella) (447 words)

	classical music - andante - the met plays a winning hand
		This adaptation of a Dostoyevsky novella by the 26-year-old Prokofiev is one of the most thrilling, colorful and rousing operas of the early 20th century.
		The Gambler is a non-stop scherzo and the Met Orchestra maintained energy throughout; when Prokofiev does offer a moment of repose, the orchestra breathes with him, all thanks to Gergiev.
		As Alexei, Vladimir Galouzine was fearless, assaying the long, loud and high role with all the neurosis and poise required; Olga Guryakova was appropriately desperate and sexy in the role of Alexei's adored Polina.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=10514 (350 words)

	The Gambler by Károly Makk at DVD Hills.com
		It's a dramatization of the Dostoyevsky's novella, "The Gambler", which, let's face it, is third rate Dostoyevsky.
		As you know, "The Gambler" is a novella written by Dostoyevsky in 1866, but the film you see is not only the adaptation of the book but also about the process behind the birth of the original story.
		Among this real-life events evolves a novella "The Gambler" which follows a life of a Russian tutor Alexey Ivanovich smong the colorful characters in a certain spa.
	www.dvd-hills.com /The-Gambler-B00005Y6Y4.htm (1397 words)

	American Gaming Association : Publications : Responsible Gaming Quarterly
		Two years after Nevada obtained U.S. statehood in 1864, Fyodor Dostoevsky was making inroads into the psyche of the disordered gambler, creating a blueprint that psychoanalysts and other scientists have been studying for more than a century.
		"[Dostoevsky's The Gambler] is the best case history [of disordered gambling] in literature," said Richard J. Rosenthal, co-director of the UCLA Gambling Studies Program, who has published five articles on Dostoevsky and the psychology of his novels, including The Gambler.
		The Gambler (as well as a number of his other works) has been adapted for the stage - as both a play and opera - as well as the movie screen.
	www.americangaming.org /rgq/rgq_detail.cfv?id=276 (693 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Gambler: Books: Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		With The Gambler, we get to meet a group of Russians staying in the German town of Roulettenburg (I live in Germany, just where is this town anyway?) as a melodramatic series of events plays out in their lives.
		SYNOPSIS: The novel centers around the career of a natural gambler named Alexei, who, as a tutor in the household of a certain Russian General, is infatuated with two things: the roulette and Paulina, the General's high-spirited niece.
		He is truly a natural gambler; throughout the novel we see him taking wild risks, for example, telling Paulina that he would throw himself from the Schlangenberg with her slightest approval.
	www.amazon.ca /Gambler-Fyodor-Dostoyevsky/dp/0486290816 (2114 words)

	Education \| Game on
		Gamblers Anonymous provides a helpful checklist on its homepage of the key indicators suggesting young people have a problem with gambling.
		Although number 10, which mentions suicide, may not be suitable, all the others are likely to open up discussions of the possible harmful consequences that might arise if people can't control their gambling (www.gamblersanonymous.org.uk/index.htm#top).
		His 1866 novella The Gambler provides compelling passages for analysis and emulation: see it online at http://dostoyevsky.thefreelibrary.com/Gambler.
	education.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,5052440-48826,00.html (1372 words)

	ChooseaGame.com \| Online Gambling Articles
		This point is illustrated by the higher number of younger students who reported problems associated with gambling, as defined by the self-perception of problems with friends or family as a consequence of gambling.
		Alcohol and drug use are more prevalent in pathological gamblers, with 40% of adult pathological gamblers meeting the criteria for drug or alcohol abuse in one study.
		The sensation may relate to increases in noradrenaline both peripherally and in the central nervous system.1 As the disorder progresses the pathological gambler is increasingly preoccupied with betting; needs to increase the size of wagers to achieve the desired psychological effects; and finds that efforts to control, reduce, or stop gambling are unsuccessful.
	www.chooseagame.com /articles (4207 words)

	Gambler
		It's no coincidence that Freed is familiar with the work of the author of "The Gambler," a novella about a compulsive gambler.
		The Gambler is aggressively cut by director Karel Reisz.
		Lauren Hutton is one great dish in The Gambler, the bloom of youth glowing on her like a delicate perfume.
	www.filmsondisc.com /dvdpages/gambler.htm (795 words)

	Gambling information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Though many participate in gambling as a form of recreation or even as a means to gain an income, gambling, like any behavior which involves variation in brain chemistry, can become a psychologically addictive and harmful behavior in some people.
		The Russian writer Dostoevsky portrays in his novella The Gambler the psychological implications of gambling and how gambling can affect gamblers.
		In the United States gamblers have made the parlay card one of the most common forms of sports betting: here bettors wager on the outcomes of two or more games.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Gambling (3065 words)

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		For The Gambler cannot be understood by focusing exclusively on the demonic triangle formed by these two principal characters and the roulette wheel.
		The Gambler is no doubt a novella rather than a novel because the logic of gambling does not lend itself to extensive treatment.
		The Girardian concept of modernity is also a passage towards social dedifferentiation, the destruction of social differences and the consequent descent of the mediator, which opens the field not only to ambition but also to the conflict of the doubles.
	www.sfu.ca /~andrewf/Girard.htm (7703 words)

	Eryn Blackwell, author at New Concepts Publishing - Great Books for Less
		To save herself and her sister, Regina had become a mail order bride, only to discover that the man she'd sold herself to in wedlock was nothing like the man he'd portrayed himself to be.
		The gambler had offered her a chair earlier, but Briggs had declined, saying she’d stand beside him--his lucky charm, after all.
		Gina looked again at his face, the long, almost aristocratic countenance, the straight nose, high brow and startlingly green eyes that were zeroed in on her.
	www.newconceptspublishing.com /thegambler.htm (1371 words)

	The gambler the nun and the radio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In one of Hemingway's short stories, "The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio," the main character is a sick man in a hospital.
		The Gambler (novel) · The Gambler (novella) · The Gambler (Prokofiev) · The Gambler (song) · The Gambler's Blues · The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio...
		Sharing the western setting of âThe Gambler, the Nun, and the Radioâ is âWine of Wyomingâ, which, like that story, contrasts life in the modern West with...
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	The gambler dostoevsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Double and The Gambler (Everyman's Lâ¦ by Fyodor Dostoevsky...
		Dostoevsky and "The Gambler": a contribution to the psychogenesis...
		In his semiautobiographical novel titled "The Gambler," Dostoevsky writes this of the passionate flush of gambling: `I was possessed by an intense craving...
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	Amazon.ca: Gambler: DVD: Károly Makk,Angeline Ball,Michael Gambon,Patrick Godfrey,Johan Leysen,Jodhi May,Luise ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In the process of getting Dostoyevsky's imagination to paper, Anna soon understands that The Gambler is autobiographical -- the tale of a young couple Polina (Polly Walker) and Alexei (Dominic West) at the casino in the fictional German resort Roulettenburg, where Alexei's gambling obsession has put him in debt.
		As the work on The Gambler continues, an attraction develops between the author and the secretary, and scenes from the work-in-progress are featured.
		In real life, Anna Grigoryevna Snitkina did indeed take shorthand on The Gambler, and she went on to become Dostoyevsky's second wife in 1867.
	www.amazon.ca /Gambler-K%E1roly-Makk/dp/B00005Y6Y4 (1445 words)

	CSIndy: Less Than Zero (June 26, 2003)
		It's hard to tell whether Reiner and screenwriter Jeremy Leven intended to be farcical with the character of the novelist; Alex's prose is bad beyond belief.
		They were reportedly borrowing from Feodor Dostoevski's short novella The Gambler, in which the author, racing to finish a novel and settle a gambling debt, falls in love with his typist.
		But their idea of how to make the characters contemporary is to make them mouthy, crass, emotionally insecure, pouty...
	www.csindy.com /csindy/2003-06-26/film2.html (635 words)

	The Gambler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Gambler (comics), a supervillain in the DC Universe
		Kenny Rogers (baseball player), whose nickname is "The Gambler" because he shares a name with the singer
		The Gambler (TV movie), a 1980 made-for-TV movie starring Kenny Rogers, whos nickname is "The Gambler".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Gambler (182 words)

	24 heures de la vie d'une femme (2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		"24 Hours of a Woman's Life" (2003) is the sixth film version of the famous novella by Austrian writer Stefan Zweig (1881-1942), and probably the most accomplished.
		At first unwilling to help or soothe her but eventually identifying with her despair, he takes her to his hotel and tells her Mrs.
		Danish actor Nikolaj Koster-Waldau is at once attractive, menacing and frail as the gambler Anton, in the relatively short but most difficult role of them all.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0229187 (743 words)

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		FF3 Novella by Mark Yohalem yohalem@ix.netcom.com Introduction: I finished FFIII on a saved game today and said to myself: "That ending was nothing!" I was pretty annoyed that the designers felt they could mess around in Mode 7 and call it an ending for a game that had an incredible plot.
		Its relevance to the Novella is unclear, unless you look very carefully at the events and their importance.
		Veiling the moon with As mentioned by Zeromus, this means The light of eternity the redemption of the moon, or his death It brings Edgar mentions that his hope and Another promise promise of creating a nation of peace To Mother Earth with has been ruined.
	www.rpgamer.com /fanfics/ffvi/novella/novella.txt (16559 words)

	gambling - Information from Reference.com
		Organized sport, although haunted by the memory of the Black Sox scandal of the 1919 World Series and college basketball scandals (1951, 1961), has done little to discourage betting, and instances of professional gamblers attempting to fix the outcome of sporting events still occur.
		In America, horse racing and casino gambling are the two most popular pastimes for gamblers, while in Britain, horse racing, greyhound racing, and Association football are most popular.
		Football gambling takes place predominantly through pools, where the gambler tries to predict the score in a range of matches, the most popular aim being to predict eight draws from a choice of 11 games for a relatively small stake.
	www.reference.com /browse/gambling (4600 words)

	CD/DVD Reviews
		The Gambler (1915/28) was based on Dostoyevsky's fl novella, with the central relationship, Alexey and Paulina, equally sure to fail as that of Hermann and Liza.
		But here money rules everyone, and the opera ends not with deaths of the protagonists, but instead with Paulina throwing Alexey's vast winnings in his face."The Gambler holds up a mirror to a society corrupted by the pursuit of easy money and racing toward oblivion" (David Gutman).
		The Gambler deserves revival in the opera house and a DVD would be desirable.
	theoperacritic.com /Pages/Reviews/V2PGWDVDGambler.htm (817 words)

	Online gambling in all sizes
		The frequency of success times the payout minus the amount wagered equals the "expected value." The skill of a gambler lies in understanding and maneuvering your moves with the three variables so that the "actual value" is positive over a series of wagers in online gambling.
		Though many participate in online gambling as a form of recreation or even as a means to gain an income, online gambling can become a psychologically addictive and harmful behavior to some people.
		The Reinforcement phenomena may also make gamblers continue in online gambling even after repeated losses.
	www.ogpaper.com /news/news-0176.html (500 words)

	Quest of the Absolute, Constant Reader Discussion
		I came away feeling very little enlightened on the subject of alchemy, whereas in the Dostoevsky novella "The Gambler" we read here a few years ago, I felt I knew for the first time what goes on in the mind of a gambler that makes the process so addictive.
		The same thought occurred to me. What bothered me was the almost complete acceptance of the Alchemist's extravagance without regard of others especially his wife and children.
		Josephine sounds like the woman married to a gambler who reconciles herself to her fate by fatalistically calling him "a dreamer." Josephine's fatalism increased my sympathy for her (as if her fatality wasn't enough) and, far from making me think that he was great, only hardened my harsh view of Balthazar.
	www.constantreader.com /discussions/questoftheabsolute.htm (3298 words)

	The Gambler movie review \| MoovGoog Movie Blog
		I was pleasantly surprised with The Gambler, catching it on HBO last night.
		Interestingly, for those of you who don't know, Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote a novella entitled The Gambler.
		Director Karel Reisz experiments with the filmography some, using quick flashes to the past in some scenes to try to describe what's going on in Axle's mind.
	www.mallasch.com /movies/review.php?sid=66 (200 words)

	Michael Gambon - Wiki Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Even after this success, for which he won a BAFTA award, his career was patchy, with big hits such as the 1989 film, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover interspersed with less notable work.
		He starred as Fyodor Dostoyevsky in the Hungarian director Károly Makk's movie The Gambler (1997) about the writing of Dostoyevsky's novella The Gambler.
		In 2004, he proved his versatility by appearing in five motion picture releases, including Wes Anderson's quirky comedy The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou; the British gangster flick Layer Cake; theatrical drama Being Julia; and CGI action fantasy Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.
	wiki.ie /wiki/Michael_Gambon (340 words)

	NorthCoast Press
		Affable, incorruptible, a master of manipulation, over the years Cassidy became the unofficial dean of the field agents, a friend of Illya Kuryakin and the mentor of Napoleon Solo.
		Liza Jones' second novella also features a short story, The Lochnivar Affair, which has Illya Kuryakin and Napoleon Solo off to England to protect the star witness in a fraud case against a Thrush agent -- her former finace.
		In The Wrong Professor Affair, the main story of this novella, Illya and Napoleon are once again sent off to England where they are to rescue Professor Whyte from Thrush.
	junior.apk.net /~lisaeve/Novellas.html (3159 words)

	Gambling at AllExperts
		Gambling has had many different meanings depending on the cultural and historical context in which it is used.
		The amount wagered determines the scale of an individual wager (bet); the odds and the amount wagered determine the payout if successful; the predicability determines the frequency of success.
		Finally the frequency of success times the payout minus the amount wagered equals the "expected value" The skill of a gambler lies in understanding and manoeuvring the three variables so that the "actual value" is positive over a series of wagers.
	en.allexperts.com /e/g/ga/gambling.htm (3188 words)

	gambler - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Gambler : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
		Phrases that include gambler: ex gambler, bob the gambler, gambler fallacy, high limit gambler
		Words similar to gambler: gamble, risk taker, more...
	www.onelook.com /?loc=pub&w=gambler (232 words)

	Author of the Month
		I like the short stories "The Real Thing" and "Greville Fane"—while my own style and tone are as far from James as can be, his prose is at times surprisingly funny, though certainly not in a punch-line way.
		His serious novella "The Beast in the Jungle" was a direct influence on the theme of my first novel, and aside from that remains one of my favorite pieces written by anyone—haunting.
		I would start with a couple of the short works, novellas really: “Notes from Underground” and “The Gambler.” His first novel, Poor Folk, is also a good early choice for those working up to the long, famous novels.
	www.pages.drexel.edu /~sas38/authorofmonth.html (843 words)

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