{"product_id":"dr-mabuse-the-gambler-a-new-translation-of-the-novel-that-inspired-fritz-langs-masterpiece-paperback-1","title":"Dr. Mabuse the Gambler: A New Translation of the Novel That Inspired Fritz Lang's Masterpiece - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNorbert Jacques\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJeffrey L. Carrier\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHe sits down at your table a stranger. By morning he owns your fortune, your will, and even your voice.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGermany, in the ruined years after the Great War. Into the gambling clubs and séance parlors of a society coming apart walks a man with no fixed face: physician, hypnotist, forger, market-rigger, and murderer. He calls himself many names. The one that matters is \u003cstrong\u003eMabuse\u003c\/strong\u003e, and his single ambition is to rule everything and everyone within his reach, for the pleasure of the power alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1921, Norbert Jacques' \u003cem\u003eDr. Mabuse, der Spieler\u003c\/em\u003e was the sensation of its age, selling more than half a million copies and giving the twentieth century one of its great villains. Within months \u003cstrong\u003eFritz Lang\u003c\/strong\u003e turned it into the monumental silent film that made Mabuse a legend and helped define German Expressionist cinema. Yet the novel behind that masterpiece has been almost impossible to read in English for a hundred years, available only in a loose, heavily censored 1923 version that even discarded the book's real title.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis new translation changes that.\u003c\/strong\u003e Rendered fresh from the original German, it restores what a century of readers has been missing: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- The complete, unabridged novel, every scene, in full\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- The book's true title and structure: the Gambler, in all twenty-one chapters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- The plainness and heat of Jacques' original, the violence, the sexuality, and the fever the earlier English edition smoothed away\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- An original introduction on Jacques, Weimar paranoia, and the Mabuse legend, plus a note on the translation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePursued across a disintegrating Germany by State Prosecutor Wenk, Mabuse is the mastermind as a mirror of his age: the unseen hand behind the chaos, the man who plays a whole society the way a cardsharp plays a deck. Here, at last, is the source, whole and in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 04, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48875106763001,"sku":"9798950343919","price":23.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/0WobBqKgnx9798950343919_ac14968a-1dd8-4795-9ed8-c6a8c22dbf91.webp?v=1787333001","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/dr-mabuse-the-gambler-a-new-translation-of-the-novel-that-inspired-fritz-langs-masterpiece-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}