Gabriel Lambert by Alexandre Dumas
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"Gabriel Lambert" by Alexandre Dumas is a novel published in 1844 as a newspaper serial. A poor young man with a talent for forgery fabricates a new identity to climb into Parisian high society. When his counterfeiting scheme is exposed, he faces execution, but his sentence is commuted to hard labor in the penal colony. The story explores themes of social ambition, identity, and capital punishment through a frame narrative that begins
with a mysterious encounter in Toulon and unfolds through discovered documents. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870 |
|---|---|
| Title | Gabriel Lambert |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Lambert |
| Credits | E-text prepared by Madeleine Fournier and Marc D'Hooghe (www.freeliterature.org) from page images generously made available by the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford (www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/home) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 78.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Impostors and imposture -- Fiction |
| Subject | France -- Fiction |
| Subject | Forgers -- Fiction |
| Subject | Cowardice -- Fiction |
| Subject | French fiction -- 19th century |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 46747 |
| Release Date | Sep 1, 2014 |
| Last Update | Oct 24, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 363 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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