Alexandre Dumas
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Overview: Alexandre Dumas's novel of justice, retribution, and self-discovery - one of the most enduringly popular adventure tales ever written - appears here in a newly revised translation. "This novel tells the story of Edmond Dantes, wrongfully imprisoned for life in the supposedly impregnable sea fortress the Chateau d'If. After a daring escape, and after unearthing a hidden treasure revealed to him by a fellow prisoner, he devotes the rest...
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"A swashbuckling epic of chivalry, honor, and derring-do, it is set in France during the 1620s and richly populated with romantic heroes, unattainable heroines, kings, queens, cavaliers, and criminals in a whirl of adventure, espionage, conspiracy, murder, vengeance, love, scandal, and suspense. Dumas transforms major and minor historical figures into larger-than-life characters: the brave d'Artagnan, an impetuous young man in pursuit of glory; the...
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The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas is a historical novel that blends romance, political intrigue, and the pursuit of beauty in 17th-century Holland. Set against the backdrop of political unrest during the fall of the Dutch Republic's De Witt brothers, the story follows Cornelius van Baerle, a peaceful tulip grower who becomes caught in the chaos of his time. His dream of cultivating the elusive black tulip is jeopardized by betrayal, jealousy, and...
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"Edmond Dantes, encarcelado por un crimen que no ha cometido, es confinado en la sombría fortaleza de If. Allí se entera de un gran tesoro escondido en la isla de Montecristo y decide no sólo escapar, sino también desenterrar el tesoro y utilizarlo para planear la destrucción de los tres hombres responsables de su encarcelamiento. La historia épica de sufrimiento y retribución de Dumas, inspirada en un caso real de encarcelamiento injusto,...
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"When Twenty Years After opens it is 1648: the Red Sphinx, Cardinal Richelieu, is dead, France is ruled by a regency in the grip of civil war, and across the English Channel the monarchy of King Charles I hangs by a thread. As d'Artagnan will find, these are problems that can't be solved with a sword thrust. In Twenty Years After, the musketeers confront maturity and face its greatest challenge: sometimes, you fail. It's in how the four comrades respond...
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The French queen Marie Antoinette had gained a bad reputation – she used too much money and arranged too many parties. But the real scandal started in 1785 when she was suspected to have bought an extremely expensive diamond necklace – even though she was a victim of a complex conspiracy.
'The Queen's Necklace' is Alexandre Dumas's exciting novel about these very happenings in the 1700's French Monarchy. It is part of 'The Marie Antoinette Romances'....
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IndyPublish.com
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[2004?]
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D'Artagnan Romance III-B In March 1844 the French magazine _Le Sicle, _ printed the first installment of a story by Alexandre Dumas. It was based, Dumas claimed, on some manuscripts he had found a year earlier in the Bibliotheque Nationale while researching a history he planned to write on Louis XIV. The serial chronicled the adventures of D'Artagnan -- a young swordsman intent on joining the king's musketeers. Young D'Artagnan becomes embroiled in...
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Oxford University Press
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[2009]
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Set in France in 1661, 'Louise de la Vallière' is the third and final part of the D'Artagnan Romances trilogy.
With Louis XIV seeking to cement his position as the absolute monarch over the whole of France, D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers are forced to come out of retirement one last time.
However, while their intentions may be noble, there might be hidden agendas at play that could steer the foursome in the wrong direction...
Packed with murder,...
10) Georges
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Modern Library
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2008.
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A major new translation of a stunning rediscovered novel by Alexandre Dumas, Georges is a classic swashbuckling adventure. Brilliantly translated by Tina A. Kover in lively, fluid prose, this is Dumas’s most daring work, in which his themes of intrigue and romance are illuminated by the issues of racial prejudice and the profound quest for identity.
Georges Munier is a sensitive boy growing up in the nineteenth century on the island...
Georges Munier is a sensitive boy growing up in the nineteenth century on the island...
11) Camille
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La Dame aux Camélias is a semi-autobiographical novel based on the author's brief love affair with a courtesan, Marie Duplessis. Set in mid-19th-century France, the novel tells the tragic love story between fictional characters Marguerite Gautier, a demimondaine or courtesan suffering from consumption, and Armand Duval, a young bourgeois. Marguerite is nicknamed la dame aux camélias (French for ''the lady of the
...13) Amaury
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Ediciones Barataria, S.I
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[2013]
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Amaury es una novela romántica que trata sobre la temática de los celos en un París de los años 1839-1840.
Amaury el personaje principal está completamente enamorado de Madeleine y quieren casarse. Sin embargo la enfermedad se instala entre ellos y los separa drásticamente.
Esta novela, anterior a Los tres mosqueteros estuvo en el olvido más de un siglo y hoy merece un lugar entre las obras maestras de la novela sentimental.
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Sainte-Hermine volume 3
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Pegasus Books
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2007.
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After being in prison for three years and wondering what his fate will be, Hector is released, but forced into battle.
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Musketeers cycle volume 1
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Pegasus Books
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2018.
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During the reign of France's King Louis XIV, a young Gascon nobleman, D'Artagnan, and three musketeers unite to defend the honor of Anne of Austria against the plots of Cardinal Richelieu.
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Modern Library
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2003.
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The Knight of Maison Rouge is the story of what happens when two people from opposite political camps fall in love during Robespierre's reign of terror. Paris, 1793. Lieutenant Maurice Lindey is an ardent young republican who hates tyranny and injustice whether they come from the left or right. But such even-handedness is a liability at a time when addressing someone as "monsieur" instead of "citizen" can bring one to the guillotine. Maurice makes...
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"Before they were legends, they were friends. All for one and one for all! On the first day of a family trip to Paris, Greg Rich's parents disappear. They're are not just missing from the city - they're missing from the century. So Greg does what any other fourteen-year-old would do: he travels through time to rescue them. Greg soon finds out that his family history is tied to the legendary Three Musketeers. But when he meets them, they're his age,...
20) Traitor's chase
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Harper
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"When the Musketeers pursue the dangerous Michel Dinicoeur to Spain, they're ambushed at every turn, causing them to suspect that there may be a traitor within their own ranks"-- Provided by publisher.