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This swashbuckling yarn is the continuation of the story in "Balsamo, the Magician," "The Queen's necklace," and "Ten Years Later." It is the story of the royal family in the last days of the monarchy of France and the struggles of the people on every side, and more than their historical struggle, their personal struggles as well.
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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...
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"The Sicilian Bandit" by Alexandre Dumas. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks...
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CONTENTS:
The d'Artagnan Romances
- The Three Musketeers
- Twenty Years After
- The Vicomte of Bragelonne
Cycle des Valois
- Marguerite de Valois
- Chicot the Jester
- The Forty-Five Guardsmen
Cycle Memoires d'un Medecin
- Joseph Balsamo
- The Queen's Necklace
- Ange Pitou
- The Countess de Charny
The Novels
THE FENCING MASTER
THE CONSPIRATORS
GEORGES
AMAURY
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
THE REGENT'S DAUGHTER
THE CORSICAN BROTHERS
THE CHEVALIER...
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The third volume of the d'Artagnan Romances, of which The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After constitute the first and second volumes, was first serialized between October 1847 to January 1850. It has subsequently been published in three, four, and five-volume editions. Our edition follows the four-volume edition. The books in this edition in their chronological order are as follows: 1. "The Vicomte de Bragelonne" (chapters 1-75), 2. "Ten Years...
46) Ascanio
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Telling the story of famous 16th-century Italian sculptor Benvenuto Cellini, Dumas' historical novel Ascanio was adapted into an opera of the same name by famous composer Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns.
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About the end of the year 1639, a troop of horsemen arrived, towards midday, in a little village at the northern extremity of the province of Auvergne, from the direction of Paris. The country folk assembled at the noise, and found it to proceed from the provost of the mounted police and his men. The heat was excessive, the horses were bathed in sweat, the horsemen covered with dust, and the party seemed on its return from an important expedition....
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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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To the Bastille! The third title in Dumas' "Marie Antoinette" series, which chronicles the decline of the French monarchy, Ange Pitou takes place during the weeks immediately preceding and following the fall of the Bastille in 1789. Gripping and brimming with action, this historical novel will delight fans of Dumas and French history.
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In 1844-45, while Alexandre Dumas was working on his two classic novels, The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, he found time to write a play called Sylvandire. A young provincial, Roger Tancred d'Anguilem, arrives in Paris to fight a legal battle for a huge inheritance. His opponent is an Indian called Afghano, who has bribed the judges. The case appears lost until Roger's approached by a sleazy lawyer who promises him success-but only...
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A true sequel to "La Dame de Monsoreau", English "Chicot the Jester". 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 Guise intrigues, the campaign of Anjou in Flanders and his death. Period 1584-85. Maquet was again the collaborator. During the fête held at Villers-Cotterets...
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Rousing, big, spirited, its action sweeping across oceans and continents, its hero gloriously indomitable, the last novel of Alexandre Dumas-lost for 125 years in the archives of the National Library in Paris-completes the oeuvre that Dumas imagined at the outset of his literary career. Indeed, the story of France from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century, as Dumas vibrantly retold it in his numerous enormously popular novels, has long been absent...
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This text was taken from 'Celebrated Crimes', a series of essays on famous criminals and crimes by the author of 'The Count of Monte Cristo' and 'The Three Musketeers', Alexandre Dumas, and contains the text from three of the books in the series. This volume contains books on • Beatrice Cenci, an Italian noblewoman committed of murder in the 16th century. • The Countess of Saint-Geran • Karl Ludwig Sand, convicted of murder in the early 19th...
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Learn more about some of the most infamous criminals ever to walk the earth in this massive compilation from one of the foremost writers of historical fiction, Alexandre Dumas. In often-chilling detail, Dumas recounts murders, heists, and all manner of malfeasance from centuries of European history.
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Adapted by Alexandre Dumas from a script by Auguste Maquet, BATHILDA tells the story of a woman who's raped by Marcel, and becomes his lover for a time. After she leaves him and moves to Paris, she meets Deworde, her deceased spouse's nephew, and plans to marry him. But Marcel pursues her, determined that if he can't have her, no one else will either. He plays a cat-and-mouse game with Bathilda, Deworde, and his friend Guilaumin, until their final...
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This novel is a continuation of the timeless classic by one of the most widely read authors in modern history, Alexandre Dumas!
It follows the adventures of Robin Hood which started in Dumas' first edition, Prince of Thieves. Journey with him through his dangerous encounters in the Sherwood forest, his continued struggles against the Sheriff of Nottingham and his new ones against the Normans.
Unearth the stories behind how he outwits a number...
57) Martin Guerre
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We are sometimes astonished at the striking resemblance existing between two persons who are absolute strangers to each other, but in fact it is the opposite, which ought to surprise us. Indeed, why should we not rather admire a Creative Power so infinite in its variety that it never ceases to produce entirely different combinations with precisely the same elements? The more one considers this prodigious versatility of form, the more overwhelming...
58) The Red Sphinx
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In 1844, Alexandre Dumas published The Three Musketeers, a novel so famous and still so popular today that it scarcely needs an introduction. Shortly thereafter he wrote a sequel, Twenty Years After. Later, toward the end of his career, Dumas wrote The Red Sphinx, another direct sequel to The Three Musketeers that begins a mere twenty days afterward. Picking up right where The Three Musketeers left off, The Red Sphinx continues the stories of Cardinal...
59) Romanhafte Lebensgeschichten von Napoleon Bonaparte & Lady Hamilton: Zwei faszinierende Biografien
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"Napoleon Bonaparte" ist eine romanhafte Biografie über das Leben von Napoleon - französischer General, revolutionärer Diktator und Kaiser. Aus korsischer Familie stammend, stieg Bonaparte während der Französischen Revolution in der Armee auf. Er erwies sich als ein militärisches Talent ersten Ranges. Dies ermöglichte ihm, durch den Staatsstreich des 18. Brumaire VIII (9. November 1799), zunächst als einer von drei Konsuls die Macht in Frankreich...
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The two lesser-known novels of Duma introduce a reader into the advantageous Napoleonic world, full of courtesy and noble heroes, tragic love stories, duels, political intrigues, and people ready to defend their ideas at the cost of their lives. "The Companions of Jehu" sends us to the early days of the Napoleonic era, as Napoleon himself only started his stellar political career as a First Consul. The story tells about the opposition between the...