{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5e8f","title":"Monte Carlo","author":"Aleksandr I. Kuprin","code":"monte-carlo","words":2527,"image":"cards.jpg","image_alt":"Playing cards splayed out over a table. Graphite filter.","genres":["literary"],"blurb":"However, one insane idea never forsakes any one of them: “The roulette has laws of its own!” It is only necessary to discover the key to them. And so these lunatics sit whole days through, combining numbers, multiplying them by one another, extracting their square roots.","description":"The author lambasts the gambling culture of Monte Carlo.","original_language":"Russian","translators":["B. Guilbert Guerney"],"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}