Alexandre Dumas
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The most famous works by the outstanding French writer Alexandre Dumas became the part of this illustrated collection of works «the Three Musketeers», «twenty Years After», «the Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later», «the Count of Monte Cristo », «queen Margot», «la Dame de Monsoreau», «the Black Tulip », «the Teacher of Fencing» and others.
62) 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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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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"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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Inhalt:
Die drei Musketiere
Zwanzig Jahre nachher
Der Graf von Monte Christo
Das Halsband der Königin
Ange Pitou oder Die Erstürmung der Bastille
Der Frauenkrieg
Die Fünfundvierzig
Die Gräfin Charny
Napoleon Bonaparte
Lady Hamilton (Memoiren einer Favoritin)
Zehn Jahre später (oder der Graf von Bragelonne)
Bernhard
Blanca von Beaulieu
Cherubino und Celestini
Das Brautkleid
Ein Liebesabenteuer
Ein Maskenball
Gabriel Lambert-Der...
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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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"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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Celebrated Crimes is a collection of true crime stories, narratives and essays on famous criminals and crimes from European history, compiled by Alexandre Dumas, père, with the assistance of several friends. He featured Beatrice Cenci, Martin Guerre, Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia, as well as more recent events and criminals, including the cases of the alleged murderers Karl Ludwig Sand and Antoine François Desrues, who were executed.
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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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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 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...
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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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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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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.
77) 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...
78) 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...
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Towards the end of the year 1665, on a fine autumn evening, there was a considerable crowd assembled on the Pont-Neuf where it makes a turn down to the rue Dauphine. The object of this crowd and the centre of attraction was a closely shut, carriage. A police official was trying to force open the door, and two out of the four sergeants who were with him were holding the horses back and the other two stopping the driver, who paid no attention to their...