Click2Flicks - Alex and Emma: The Story Behind The Movie - Chapter 1 - Preface

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff cellpadding=5> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>ALEX AND EMMA:</p> <p>THE STORY BEHIND THE MOVIE</b></font></p>  <table width="590"> <tr> <td align="CENTER" valign="top" bgcolor="000000" colspan=2><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="3" color="FFFFFF"><b>STORY CHAPTER LINKS</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" border="0"> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="#preface"><b>1. STORY PREFACE</b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="alex_emma_ch2.htm">2. SAVED BY STENOGRAPHY</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="alex_emma_ch3.htm">3. THE REAL ALEX</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="alex_emma_ch4.htm">4. ARRESTED</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="alex_emma_ch5.htm">5. DEATH BY FIRING SQUAD</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width=311 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 border=0 height="171"> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" height="18" width="287"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="alex_emma_ch6.htm"><b>6. DOSTOEVSKY, THE GAMBLER</b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" height="18" width="287"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="alex_emma_ch7.htm"><b>7. TRAGEDIES</i></b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" height="18" width="287"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="alex_emma_ch8.htm">8. THE REAL EMMA</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" height="18" width="287"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="alex_emma_ch9.htm">9. ON TIME</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" height="18" width="287"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="alex_emma_ch10.htm">10. USED AND RECOMMENDED SOURCES</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  <p><font size="3"><u><b><a name="preface">PREFACE</a></b></u></font></b></p> <div align=center><font face="Times New Roman" color="000000" size="3"><b><i>One had to come to terms with it...<br> To look at his gambling passion as a disease<br> for which there was no cure.<br><br></b></i> Anna Dostoevsky<br> <a href="http://www.amicus.nlc-bnc.ca/wbin/resanet/itemdisp/l=0/d=1/r=1/e=0/h=10/i=963910" target="_blank"><b><i>Reminiscences</b></i></a><br><br></font> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">It was the end of September, 1866, and <a href="images/fyodor.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Fyodor Dostoevsky</b></a> 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 had 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.</p> <p>The novel - eventually called <a href="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0812966937.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" target="_blank"><b><i>The Gambler</b></i></a> - was due in thirty days. Dostoevsky had yet to write the first word.</p> </div> <p align="right"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="2"><a href="alex_emma_ch2.htm">GO TO CHAPTER 2</a></font></p> <p align="center"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="3"><a href="http://www.awesomestories.com/content/about_author.htm" target="_blank"><b>Author: Carole D. Bos, J.D.</b></center></a></p><br> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>  </body>