Alexandre Dumas
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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...
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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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Features one of the strangest characters in literature, Joseph Balsamo, also known as Cagliostro (later a key figure in the Affair of the Necklace). An alchemist, conspirator, and Freemason, Balsamo figures prominently in the eventual downfall of the French monarchy.
44) 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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"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...
46) 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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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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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...
49) 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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France had been changed to a limited monarchy from an absolute one, and King Louis XVI had solemnly sworn to defend the new Constitution. But it had been remarked by shrewd observers that he had not attended the Te Deum at the Paris Cathedral, with the members of the National Assembly: that is, he would tell a lie but not commit perjury. The people were therefore on their guard against him, while they felt that his Queen, Marie Antoinette, the daughter...
52) Ali Pacha
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The beginning of the nineteenth century was a time of audacious enterprises and strange vicissitudes of fortune. Whilst Western Europe in turn submitted and struggled against a sub-lieutenant who made himself an emperor, who at his pleasure made kings and destroyed kingdoms, the ancient eastern part of the Continent; like mummies which preserve but the semblance of life, was gradually tumbling to pieces, and getting parceled out amongst bold adventurers...
53) Vaninka
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About the end of the reign of the Emperor Paul I, that is to say, towards the middle of the first year of the nineteenth century just as four o'clock in the afternoon was sounding from the church of St. Peter and St. Paul, whose gilded vane overlooks the ramparts of the fortress, a crowd, composed of all sorts and conditions of people, began to gather in front of a house which belonged to General Count Tchermayloff, formerly military governor of a...
54) 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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Excerpt: "If you ever chanced, dear reader, to go from Nantes to Bourgneuf you must, before reaching Saint-Philbert, have skirted the southern corner of the lake of Grand-Lieu, and then, continuing your way, you arrived, at the end of one hour or two hours, according to whether you were on foot or in a carriage, at the first trees of the forest of Machecoul."
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"Os Três Mosqueteiros" conta as aventuras de um jovem de dezoito anos chamado D'Artagnan. Esse jovem de sangue quente deixa a terra natal para se apresentar em Paris com a recomendação do pai ao fidalgo de Tréville, capitão da Companhia dos Mosqueteiros. Segue-se uma série de acontecimentos que fazem com que D'Artagnan tenha de duelar com os três mosqueteiros - Athos, Portos e Aramis - e os guardas do cardeal Richelieu...
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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...
59) La Constantin
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It was about seven o'clock. Three gentlemen were seated at one of the tables in a low, smoky room. They had already emptied several bottles, and one of them seemed to have just suggested some madcap scheme to the others, the thought of which sent them off into shouts of laughter.
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In the great political and religious convulsions of the South, the earthquake-like throes of which were felt even in the capital, Nimes has always taken the central place; Nimes will therefore be the pivot round which our story will revolve, and though we may sometimes leave it for a moment, we shall always return thither without fail.