In the final chapter, the protagonist asserts the time is "five minutes to a seven," and imagines the number seven as a gothic arch.
One character in this story has the "profile of Napoleon and the soul of Mephistopheles," while another character wants to read novels that feature no people drowning. In the final chapter, the protagonist asserts the time is "five minutes to a seven," and imagines the number seven as a gothic arch. Earlier, the main character imagines a corpse in a chest winking at him, as does the title object in the end before he ends up in Room 17 of Obuhovsky Asylum. Earlier, he had killed an 87-year old countess by scaring her to death with a gun, whose apparition later reveals the way to get rich by faro. Tchekalinsky loses his money on the first two days, but wins against Hermann, in for ten points, what Alexander Pushkin work that was made into a Tchaikovsky opera named for a card?
One character in this story has the "profile of Napoleon and the soul of Mephistopheles," while another character wants to read novels that feature no people drowning.
The {Queen} of {Spades} or {Pikovaya dama}