{"product_id":"gabriel-lambert-a-new-translation-9798272759566","title":"Gabriel Lambert: A New Translation","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Serge Laclos | Alexandre Dumas\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - French\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom peasant to gentleman to prisoner-one man's ambition becomes his undoing.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGabriel Lambert, the son of a humble Norman schoolmaster, refuses to accept the poverty into which he was born. Armed with a single talent-the ability to forge handwriting and illustrations with perfect precision-he transforms himself into a sophisticated man of Parisian society, winning hearts and climbing social ladders that should have remained forever out of reach.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut every forged signature leads to another. Every deception demands a higher price. When Gabriel's counterfeiting schemes catch the attention of the legendary Eug�ne-Fran�ois Vidocq, head of the Paris S�ret�, his carefully constructed world collapses. Sentenced to death, then condemned to life in the brutal galleys of Toulon, Gabriel must face the ultimate cost of his ambitions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold through six different narrators, each bearing witness against him, Alexandre Dumas crafts an unflinching portrait of an anti-hero-a dark mirror to the noble adventurers who populate his other works. Written during the same period as \u003ci\u003eThe Three Musketeers\u003c\/i\u003e, this forgotten masterpiece explores the corruption of the soul and the terrible price of refusing one's place in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow far would you go to escape who you are?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47967913476247,"sku":"9798272759566","price":980.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798272759566.webp?v=1782916094","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/gabriel-lambert-a-new-translation-9798272759566","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}