It was the end of September, 1866, and Fyodor Dostoevsky was in serious trouble. Desperate for money the prior year, he had made a bad bargain with a rogue publisher. In exchange for an advance on an unwritten novel, Dostoevsky agreed to give Fyodor Stellovsky the rights to all his future works for a period of ten years if he could not deliver the new book by November 1, 1866.
The novel - eventually called The Gambler (first translated into English by Constance Garnett) - was due in thirty days. Dostoevsky had yet to write the first word.
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