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Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera, autora decimonónica peruana, produjo novelas populares como Blanca Sol y Las consecuencias. Estos textos tradicionalmente han sido analizados desde la perspectiva de sus tropos naturalistas y su recepción polémica. Sin embargo, este ensayo demuestra que las novelas también emplean temas financieros, como las apuestas en juegos de cartas, para hacer preguntas sociales relacionadas con juegos amorosos, con las desigualdades de género en las relaciones amorosas y el trabajo, y con la economía peruana. La crítica no ha explorado lo suficiente los juegos de cartas y de amor en estas novelas y cómo crean paralelos con las desigualdades económicas y sociales dentro de un ambiente naturalista.
Nineteenth-century Peruvian author Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera produced widely-read novels such as Blanca Sol and Las consecuencias. These texts have traditionally been analyzed in conjunction with her polemical reception by contemporaries and their naturalist depictions. However, this paper demonstrates that the novels also employ financial topics, such as gambling, to raise larger social questions surrounding games of love, gender inequalities in relationships and the workforce, and the Peruvian economy. Cabello de Carbonera’s representation of gambling and love games in parallel to social and economic inequalities has not been sufficiently explored by critics and connects directly to other naturalist tropes in her fiction.
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Seventeen-year-old Michal Garcia, a bookie at Carson City High School, raises the stakes in her illegal activities after she meets wealthy, risk-taking Josh Ellison.
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Taking off the Masks: Dostoevsky Sketches Life into Fiction
Starting from the relationship reality-fiction and of theories about autobiography and autofiction developed by Phillippe Lejeune and Phillippe Gasparini, the present study aims to expose the different levels of biographical exploitation in two works published by Dostoevsky in approximately the same period, Notes from the House of the Dead (1860-1862) and The Gambler (1866), in which the autobiographical material melts into the fiction in different ways. Notes combines elements of autobiography and autofiction, while The Gambler is an example of a fictional text with a powerful autobiographical substrate. In both cases, the strategies used by Dostoevsky to fictionalize his own life aim to distort the real elements of the author's life, in different doses. Dostoevsky constructs for himself a complex fictive identity from a psychological point of view in order to describe his own experiences (the trauma of prison and his obsession with gambling), in a process to remodel the self.
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The Gameshouse
\"Everyone has heard of the Gameshouse. But few know all its secrets... It is the place where fortunes can be made and lost through chess, backgammon--every game under the sun. But those whom fortune favors may be invited to compete in the higher league, where the games played are of politics and nations, of economics and kings. It is a contest where capture the castle involves real castles and where hide-and seek takes place on the scale of a continent. Among those worthy of competing in the higher league, three unusually talented contestants play for the highest stakes of all---\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Appearance vs Reality in Bret Harte’s The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Hypocrisy is the state of play-acting to have an opinion, idea, belief, behavior, or virtue that one does not have in his/her real life. This study sheds light on the theme of appearance and reality in one of the works of Bret Harte, the outcasts of poker flat, which is one of his famous short stories. Harte is an American writer and he is best known for his short stories. The work is an example of local color and regionalism fiction in which the writer depicts California during the first half of the nineteenth century. He is renowned for his similar writings on the life of the miners and gamblers of the California Gold Rush. In this paper, we would like to argue that if someone is considered wrong might not necessarily be so. The protagonist of the story is being accused of immorality by his surroundings. Therefore, we argue that the accusation very much fits those who accuse him rather than him.
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The ballad of a small player
\"As night falls on Macau and the neon signs that line the rain-slick streets come alive, Doyle - \"Lord Doyle\" to his fellow players - descends into his casino of choice to try his luck at the baccarat tables that are the anchor of his current existence. A corrupt English lawyer who has escaped prosecution by fleeing to the East, Doyle spends his nights drinking and gambling and his days sleeping off his excesses, continually haunted by his past. Taking refuge in a series of louche and dimly lit hotels, he watches his fortune rise and fall as the cards decide his fate. In a moment of crisis he meets Dao-Ming, an enigmatic Chinese woman who appears to be a denizen of the casinos just like himself, and seems to offer him salvation in the form of both money and love. But as Doyle attempts to make a rare and true connection, all that he accepts as reality seems to be slipping from his grasp.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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“A Ringer Was Used to Make the Killing”: Horse Painting and Racetrack Corruption in the Early Depression-Era War on Crime
Peter Christian “Paddy” Barrie was a seasoned fraudster who transferred his horse doping and horse substitution skills from British to North American racetracks in the 1920s. His thoroughbred ringers were entered in elite races to guarantee winnings for syndicates and betting rings in the Prohibition-era United States. This case study of a professional travelling criminal and the challenges he posed for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in the early 1930s war on crime highlights both the importance of illegal betting to urban mobsters and the need for broader and more nuanced critiques of Depression-era organized-crime activities and alliances.
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Jeux et joueurs d'autrefois
Extrait: \"On a toujours joué, on jouera toujours. Il faudrait maints in-octavo pour raconter l'histoire du jeu à travers les siècles. Depuis les soldats de Pilate qui tiraient aux dés les vêtements de Jésus-Christ, depuis Duguesclin qui perdait en prison la totalité de son bien, depuis Bassompierre qui sous Henri IV gagnait cinq cent mille livres d'un coup de cartes, depuis Mazarin, depuis Louis XV, la secte des joueurs a encore aujourd'hui le même nombre d'adeptes, ...\"À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARANLes éditions LIGARAN proposent des versions numériques de qualité de grands livres de la littérature classique mais également des livres rares en partenariat avec la BNF. Beaucoup de soins sont apportés à ces versions ebook pour éviter les fautes que l'on trouve trop souvent dans des versions numériques de ces textes.LIGARAN propose des grands classiques dans les domaines suivants: • Livres rares
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