Download or read book The House of the Dead and the Gambler written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 2010-05-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexey Ivanovitch is a young tutor in the household of a general. He is both observer and actor in the tempest which surrounds his impoverished employer. Everyone is waiting for the death of Granny, the general's rich aunt, but so far from dying, she turns up alive and well, and makes her way to the casino...