Alexandre Dumas
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Extrait : "Nous ne savons si le prologue que nous allons mettre sous les yeux du lecteur est bien utile, et cependant nous ne pouvons résister au désir d'en faire, non pas le premier chapitre, mais la préface de ce livre. Plus nous avançons dans la vie, plus nous avançons dans l'art, plus nous demeurons convaincu que rien n'est abrunt et isolé, que la nature et la société marchent par déductions et non par accidents, et que l'événement,...
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This vintage book contains Alexandre Dumas's 1849 historical novel, "Louise De La Valliere". The Third instalment of the final episode in the D'Artagnan Romances, it continues the narrative that started with "The Vicomte de Bragelonne" and "Ten Years Later". Louis XIV is desperate to solidify his position as absolute ruler of France. Impending turmoil forces the Musketeers and d'Artagnan to come out of retirement, but is it for the right reasons?...
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Following Ten Years Later, the fifth volume of this adventure saga chronicles a tale of intrigue and romantic rivalry in the court of Louis XIV.
With The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas introduced the world to the immortal hero D'Artagnan and the inseparable trio of king's musketeers: Athos, Aramis, and Porthos. Their many escapades-full of swordfights, derring-do, and chivalry-came to define the swashbuckler genre of adventure fiction.
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Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, is revered not only for her dazzling beauty, but for the mystery of her life. Succumbing to the irresistible impulses of passion, she gambled away her throne for love. Unbelievable acts of abduction, rape, and even murder were performed at her behest; she stopped at nothing. Ultimately, the deadly game of power she played and lost against her envious cousin, Elizabeth I, cost her not only her kingdom, but also her life....
45) Queen Margot
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The classic tale of royal conspiracy and forbidden romance during the sixteenth-century French Wars of Religion by the author of The Three Musketeers.
Paris, 1572. For a decade, French Catholics and Protestant Huguenots have been locked in a violent struggle for control of France. Though King Charles IX reigns, it is his mother, Catherine de Medici, who holds sway. In a gesture of peace, Catherine arranges for her daughter Margot to marry the Huguenot...
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Men of great wealth bought her love. She gave it to only one. Marguerite Gautier, the greatest beauty in Paris, was known to all as “the Lady of the Camellias” because she was never seen without her favorite flowers. She was luxuriously kept by the richest men in France, who thronged to her boudoir to lay their fortunes at her feet. She lived violently, spending herself and her money in reckless abandon. She had many lovers, but she never really...
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While French writer Alexandre Dumas is best-known for The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, many critics consider his Marie-Antoinette novels to be his greatest achievement. Indeed, he was working on a dramatization of The Queen's Necklace at the time of his death in 1870. This was never published, but French playwright Pierre Decourcelle then produced his own version of this work. A successful dramatist, Decourcelle did a brilliant...
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Dans le pays nantais et vendéen, deux jumelles se retrouvent mêlées à un complot...Les Louves de Machecoul font partie des nombreux romans méconnus d'Alexandre Dumas. Écrit en 1858 (quatorze ans après Les Trois Mousquetaires), ce roman fut imaginé par l'un des nègres de Dumas, Gaspard de Cherville. L'intrigue des Louves de Machecoul se déroule entre 1831 et 1832, au confluent du Pays de Retz, du Pays Nantais et du Marais breton. Mary et...
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"Twenty Years After" is the sequel to Alexandre Dumas' epic tale of love, loyalty and revenge, "The Three Musketeers," and features all of the surviving characters from the first book, now two decades older but no less willing to fight for their honor: d'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis - the famous Musketeers - along with the evil Count Rochefort, the servant Planchet and the benevolent Queen Anne.
D'Artagnan, once a promising cadet, has...
50) Joseph Balsamo
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Joseph Balsamo is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, inspired by the life and personality of Giuseppe Balsamo, commonly referred to as Count Alessandro di Cagliostro.
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Dr. Ivans, unable to make a living in London, migrates with his two daughters to Australia, where he hopes to make his fortune; one of his girls, Melida, is forced to leave her suitor, Williams, behind. Arriving in Australia, Ivans finds himself unable to improve his fortune-he's too willing to help the poor, and has a good reputation for charitable works. Then a group of gold miners, a motley crew of Frenchmen, send for him to heal a young miner...
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Trece años después de la sangrienta Noche de San Bartolomé, cuarenta y cinco hombres son llamados por el duque de Epernon para formar la guardia del rey, destinados a cumplir una misión que ninguno conoce a ciencia cierta. El monarca, Enrique III, que no ha podido calmar los enfrentamientos políticos y religiosos que perturban el reino de Francia, ha perdido a sus mignons más queridos y languidece de tristeza y de aburrimiento en su corte, mas...
53) Nisida
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If our readers, tempted by the Italian proverb about seeing Naples and then dying, were to ask us what is the most favourable moment for visiting the enchanted city, we should advise them to land at the mole, or at Mergellina, on a fine summer day and at the hour when some solemn procession is moving out of the cathedral. Nothing can give an idea of the profound and simple-hearted emotion of this populace, which has enough poetry in its soul to believe...
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Auf Grund der Einladung eines alten Freundes war der 27jährige Alexandre Dumas 1831 zur Jagd in einer Gegend rund um ein kleines Dorf in Frankreich als er einen Mann begegnete, der einen wahnsinnige Ausdruck im Gesicht hatte und angab, seine Frau im Weinkeller mit einem Zweihänderschwert enthauptet hat und das der abgeschlagene Kopf noch mit ihm gesprochen hat. Zur Protokollierung seiner Aussage begab sich der bekannte Schriftsteller in das Haus...
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This powerful, eloquent play moves like a Greek tragedy to its inevitable conclusion. Dumas's drama is based on an actual event-the assassination of Duke Alexander of Medici in 1537 by his cousin, Lorenzo. Lorenzino lures his relative to a trap under the pretext of providing him with a woman. He gets close to the Duke by pandering to his lusts, just so that he'll have the opportunity to kill him. His plan ultimately works, but results in the suicide...
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Excerpt: "It is with cities as with men-chance presides over their foundation; and the topographical situation of the first, and the social position of the latter, exercise a beneficial or an evil influence over their entire existence. There are noble cities which, in their selfish pride of place, have refused to permit the erection even of a few humble cottages on the mountain on which their foundations rested: their domination must be exclusive...
57) Joan of Naples
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In the night of the 15th of January 1343, while the inhabitants of Naples lay wrapped in peaceful slumber, they were suddenly awakened by the bells of the three hundred churches that this thrice blessed capital contains. In the midst of the disturbance caused by so rude a call the first thought in the mind of all was that the town was on fire, or that the army of some enemy had mysteriously landed under cover of night and could put the citizens to...
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Excerpt: "It was a winter night, and the ground around Paris was covered with snow, although the flakes had ceased to fall since some hours. Spite of the cold and the darkness, a young man, wrapped in a mantle so voluminous as to hide a babe in his arms, strode over the white fields out of the town of Villers Cotterets, in the woods, eighteen leagues from the capital, which he had reached by the stagecoach, towards a hamlet called Haramont. His assured...
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O romance decorre em França, mais propriamente perto de Bordéus, no ano de 1650. Uma inextrincável intriga de amores secretos que ocultam um acontecimento bem mais importante: a Fronda da nobreza capitaneada por Condé. A rainha Ana de Áustria ocupa a regência, assessorada por Mazarino. O Príncipe de Condé fora preso por ordem do primeiro-ministro e sua mulher confinada a um castelo. O barão de Canolles procura os favores de Nanon de Lartigues,...
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Written in 1847, while Dumas was at the height of his powers, this play recounts the events leading up to the Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre of the French Huguenots-and the subsequent death of King Charles IX. The playwright focuses on the people inadvertently caught up in the slaughter-which, once started, cannot be repressed. By following the fate of two nobles, the Catholic Count Coconnas and the Huguenot Count de la Mole, and linking their stories...