Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler

di Jacques (Autore)

Lilian A. Clare (Traduttore)

Waking Lion Press, 2026

Edgar Hull is gambling at a Munich club when he suddenly and mysteriously starts losing, seemingly on purpose. He walks away from the table in a confused daze and deep in debt-he can't understand why he played that way. Little does Edgar know that his opponent in the game was the mysterious hypnotist, master of disguise, and archvillain who calls himself Dr. Mabuse, and that Edgar was merely his latest victim. When Inspector von Wenk, a state attorney, arrives to question Hull, the plot quickly turns to murder-and worse-as Mabuse continues his reign of mesmeric terror on Munich's gambling class. But Dr. Mabuse isn't just in it for the money-his aim is something far greater. Dr. Mabuse, along with Fu Manchu and Fantômas, is one of the earliest examples of the "supervillain" archetype popular in modern media like the Bond series or comic books. He's a seemingly invincible chameleon with an eerie, inexplicable power over people; he seems to be controlling a shadowy organization with a greater, more sinister, goal; and he's always one step ahead of the law. Jacques wrote Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler with the aim of criticizing the extravagance of German post-war society. This makes the novel a kind of time capsule of the era, playing on the gamut of contemporary interests and fears including hypnotism, psychoanalysis, decadence, and the question of whether a society that permitted World War I is a society that could be redeemed. The novel was successful in its day, but was made even more famous by the Fritz Lang silent movie of the same name, which was so popular with both audiences and critics that it almost completely overshadowed the novel. A hypnotic, fast-moving thriller that helped invent the modern supervillain, Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler is a gripping descent into the shadowy underworld of a society still reeling from war. The source for this public-domain ebook is Standard Ebooks (standardebooks.org). Ebooks from other sources often have typos, inconsistent spelling, missing accent marks, and missing punctuation. Ebooks from Standard Ebooks are proofread line by line against a scan of the original printed pages, then proofread again from cover to cover. They are also formatted and typeset following a professional-grade style manual, resulting in new editions supporting state-of-the-art ereader technology: automatic hyphenation, popup footnotes, complete and consistent metadata, high-resolution and scalable vector graphics, and ereader-compatible tables of contents. All of this makes the finished ebooks accurate, functional, and beautiful, a pleasure to read. (Waking Lion Press is not affiliated with or endorsed by Standard Ebooks.)

• Autore: Jacques
• Traduttore: Lilian A. Clare
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Waking Lion Press
• Formato: EPUB3 con Adobe DRM
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9781434125422