How Dostoevsky overcame his gambling addiction
- Written by: Stephen Dobson, Professor and Dean of Education and the Arts, CQUniversity Australia
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky – Vasily Perov (1872).Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsDostoevsky had to write The Gambler in two months. He had no choice. He had accepted 3,000 roubles from a publisher named Stellovsky to keep his creditors at bay. If he failed to deliver a work of not less than ten printer’s sheets (160 pages) by...




















