Alexandre Dumas

Translated with an Introduction by Robin Buss

The Count of Monte Cristo

Les Trois Mousquetaires | The Three Musketeers

Il conte di Montecristo

Follows the life of Marguerite Gautier, the most sought-after courtesan in Paris, who casts aside her upper-class lifestyle for commoner Armand Duval, but their love is challenged by the constraints of society.

The Lady of the Camellias

Dumas séduit, fascine, intéresse, amuse, enseigne.Victor Hugo.Tout le monde connaît la verve prodigieuse de M. Dumas, son entrain facile, son bonheur de mise en scène, son dialogue spirituel et toujours en mouvement, ce récit léger qui court sans cesse et qui sait enlever l’obstacle et l’espace sans jamais faiblir. Il couvre d’immenses toiles sans jamais fatiguer ni son pinceau, ni son lecteur.Sainte-Beuve.Les Trois Mousquetaires... notre seule épopée depuis le Moyen Âge.Roger Nimier.Les Trois Mousquetaires forment le plus divertissant des romans d’aventures. Leurs personnages, Athos, Porthos, Aramis et d’Artagnan, sont sortis des bibliothèques pour descendre dans la rue. Ils ont enseigné l’insolence et l’amitié à beaucoup de jeunes Français qui ont aussi découvert les fatalités de l’amour en rêvant aux belles épaules de Milady et à ses regards de perdition.Kléber Haedens.

Les trois mousquetaires

The Nutcracker

Continues the adventures of the Four Musketeers, as Athos seeks to restore Charles II to the throne, Aramis and Porthos are involved in a secret plan with a masked prisoner, and D'Artagnan finds adventure that leads him from the French court to Holland and Brittany.

The Vicomte de Bragelonne

O marinheiro Edmond Dantés é preso injustamente, vítima de um complô. Anos depois, consegue escapar da prisão, enriquece e planeja uma vingança mirabolante. A galeria de personagens criada por Dumas faz um retrato da França do século XIX, um mundo em transformação, em que passou a ser possível a mudança de posições sociais.

O Conde de Monte Cristo

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo I

الكونت دي مونت كريستو

General Press

A popular bestseller since its publication in 1844, The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the great page-turning thrillers of all time. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. Dumas’ epic tale of suffering and retribution, inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, was a huge popular success when it was first serialized in the 1840s. The story of his long imprisonment, dramatic escape, and carefully wrought revenge offers up a vision of France that has become immortal.

For the first time in English in over a century, a new translation of the forgotten sequel to Dumas’s The Three Musketeers, continuing the dramatic tale of Cardinal Richelieu and his implacable enemies. In 1844, Alexandre Dumas published The Three Musketeers, a novel so famous and still so popular today that it scarcely needs introduction. Shortly thereafter he wrote a sequel, Twenty Years After, that resumed the adventures of his swashbuckling heroes. Later, toward the end of his career, Dumas wrote The Red Sphinx, another direct sequel to The Three Musketeers that begins, not twenty years later, but a mere twenty days afterward. The Red Sphinx picks up right where the The Three Musketeers left off, continuing the stories of Cardinal Richelieu, Queen Anne, and King Louis XIII—and introducing a charming new hero, the Comte de Moret, a real historical figure from the period. A young cavalier newly arrived in Paris, Moret is an illegitimate son of the former king, and thus half-brother to King Louis. The French Court seethes with intrigue as king, queen, and cardinal all vie for power, and young Moret soon finds himself up to his handsome neck in conspiracy, danger—and passionate romance! Dumas wrote seventy-five chapters of The Red Sphinx, all for serial publication, but he never quite finished it, and so the novel languished for almost a century before its first book publication in France in 1946. While Dumas never completed the book, he had earlier written a separate novella, The Dove, that recounted the final adventures of Moret and Cardinal Richelieu. Now for the first time, in one cohesive narrative, The Red Sphinx and The Dove make a complete and satisfying storyline—a rip-roaring novel of historical adventure, heretofore unknown to English-language readers, by the great Alexandre Dumas, king of the swashbucklers.

A Sequel to The Three Musketeers

The Red Sphinx

Michaela Messner

Roman

Die drei Musketiere

G. Paduano

El Conde de Montecristo

There are dreadful--perhaps scurrilous--rumors about the Borgias of renaissance Italy, and here Dumas, author of such classics as "The Three Musketeers, " dishes up the dirt in all its ugly glory.

The Borgias

I tre moschettieri

Kamelyali Kadin

In seventeenth-century France, young D'Artagnan befriends three musketeers, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, and joins them in trying to outwit the enemies of the king and queen.

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