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The Hero of the People is set in the waning days of the French Revolution, a story of adventure and intrigue and even romance during a turbulent time in European history. Alexandre Dumas was a French writer whose works have been translated into nearly 100 languages. His...
The popularity of Dumas Pere's historical novels of high adventure, including "The Three Musketeers", have made him one of the most widely read French authors.
'At this game, whoever does not kill is killed.' Twenty Years After (1845), the sequel to The Three Musketeers, is a supreme creation of suspense and heroic adventure. Two decades have passed since the musketeers triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady. Time has...
A true sequel to "La Dame de Monsoreau." It concerns the revenge of Diane de Méridor upon the Duc d'Anjou for his base betrayal of Bussy d'Amboise. Historically it commences with the execution of Salcède and the arrival of the Forty-Five at Paris, and deals with the...
In this seventh volume of his Celebrated Crimes, Dumas tells the three tales: of the brutal excesses of Ali Pacha; the tale of the Countess of Saint Geran;and of Murat, whose courage became a legend in the days of the French revolution. Few men have understood...
"The Queen's Necklace" dramatizes an unsavory incident in the 1780s at the court of King Louis XVI of France involving the King's wife, Marie Antoinette. Her reputation was already tarnished by gossip and scandal, and her implication in a crime involving a stolen...
A historical romance set in the period of King Louis XV relating the trials and tribulations of the court and life in this time.A wonderfully written and interesting novel with a historical background....
On the 21st Frimaire of the year II. (11th of December, 1793), the diligence from Besancon to Strasbourg stopped at nine o'clock in the evening in the courtyard of the Hotel de la Poste, behind the cathedral. Five travellers descended from it, but the youngest only...
Bristling with political plots, secret assignations, daring escapes, duels, surprising alliances and betrayals, Dumas orchestrates two plotlines to come together in a very scene-driven, absolutely over-the-top novel. The title character isn't a jester in the way we...
The d'Artagnan Romances are a set of three novels by Alexandre Dumas telling the story of the musketeer d'Artagnan from his humble beginnings in Gascony to his death as a marshal of France in the Siege of Maastricht in 1673. It is May 1660 and the fate of nations is at...
Alexandre Dumas's most famous tale - and possibly the most famous historical novel of all time - in a handsome hardcover volume. This swashbuckling epic of chivalry, honor, and derring-do, set in France during the 1620s, is richly populated with romantic heroes,...
The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is the third and last of the d'Artagnan Romances followingThe Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After. It appeared first in serial form...
The Three Musketeers is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to become a musketeer. D'Artagnan is not one of the musketeers of the title; those are his friends Athos, Porthos, and Aramis,...
In the preface of "The Companions of Jehu" I told why that romance had been written; and those who have read it cannot fail to have seen where I borrowed from Nodier in the description of the execution, of which he was an ocular witness.In short, I borrowed my...
The reader guesses beforehand whom the usher preceded in announcing the courier from Bretagne. This messenger was easily recognized. It was D'Artagnan, his clothes dusty, his face inflamed, his hair dripping with sweat, his legs stiff; he lifted his feet painfully at...
Tome2 "Vingt ans après" est la suite du roman " Les Trois Mousquetaires" d'Alexandre Dumas. Vous allez retrouver: Athos, Porthos, Aramis et d'Artagnan aux prises avec Mazarin et Cromwell dans le cadre de la fronde et la révolution d'Angleterre D'Artagnan a vu ses amis...
"Vingt ans après" est la suite du roman " Les Trois Mousquetaires" d'Alexandre Dumas. Vous allez retrouver: Athos, Porthos, Aramis et d'Artagnan aux prises avec Mazarin et Cromwell dans le cadre de la fronde et la révolution d'Angleterre D'Artagnan a vu ses amis quitté...
"Les Trois Mousquetaires" est le plus célèbre et le plus connu des romans d'Alexandre DUMAS. Avec ses nombreux combats et ses rebondissements romanesques, Les Trois Mousquetaires est l'exemple type du roman de cape et d'épée. Résumé: Le roman raconte les aventures d'un...
La Dame aux camélias a pour thème une histoire d'amour entre une courtisane atteinte de phtisie, Marguerite Gautier, et un jeune bourgeois, Armand Duval.La narration de cette histoire d'amour constitue un récit dans le récit, puisqu'Armand Duval raconte son aventure au...
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