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Twenty Years After - Alexandre Dumas - Twenty Years After (French: Vingt ans après) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, first serialized from January to August 1845. A book of The d'Artagnan Romances, it is a sequel to The Three Musketeers and precedes The Vicomte de Bragelonne (which includes the sub-plot Man in the Iron Mask).
The novel follows events in France during the Fronde, during the childhood reign of Louis XIV, and in England near the end...
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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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Un mot s'impose sur la présente édition du Comte de Monte-Cristo. Il s'agit d'une version abrégée d'environ un cinquième par
rapport au texte intégral. L'abréviation a été réfl échie de manière à respecter la complexité de l'intrigue et la dimension littéraire de l'ouvrage. A part les suppressions, il n'y a aucun changement
signifi catif dans le texte original. Les suppressions concernent uniquement les répétitions et les résumés...
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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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The third and final volume of the 'd'Artagnon Romances', of which "The Three Musketeers" and "Twenty Years After" constitute the first and second volumes, The Vicomte de Bragelonne was first serialized between October 1847 to January 1850. It has subsequently been published in three, four, and five-volume editions. Our edition contains four volumes: "The Vicomte de Bragelonne", "Ten Years Later", "Louise de la Vallière", and "The Man in the Iron...
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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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While traveling through Europe an unsuspecting man is attacked by a military officer and later discovered by a mysterious old woman with a personal vendetta. It's a thrilling tale fueled by family, betrayal and hidden agendas.
Claudius Ruprecht is a young man who was raised without a traditional family. He grew up an orphan with no real knowledge of his mother or father. As an adult, he embarks on a university tour that takes him across Europe...
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Une édition de référence des Trois Mousquetaires d'Alexandre Dumas, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« — Et maintenant, messieurs, dit d'Artagnan sans se donner la peine d'expliquer sa conduite à Porthos, tous pour un, un pour tous, c'est notre devise, n'est-ce pas ?
— Cependant... dit Porthos.
— Étends la main et jure ! s'écrièrent à la fois Athos et Aramis.
Vaincu par l'exemple, maugréant tout...
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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...
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Margaret of Valois (French: Marguerite, 14 May 1553 – 27 March 1615) was a French princess of the Valois dynasty who became queen consort of Navarre and later also of France. By her marriage to Henry III of Navarre (later Henry IV of France), she was queen of Navarre and then France at her husband's 1589 accession to the latter throne. Their marriage was annulled in 1599 by decision of the Pope. She was the daughter of King Henry II of France and...
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Le 15 août 1769, naquit à Ajaccio un enfant qui reçut de ses parents le nom de Buonaparte, et du ciel celui de Napoléon. Les premiers jours de sa jeunesse s'écoulèrent au milieu de cette agitation fiévreuse qui suit les révolutions; la Corse, qui depuis un demi-siècle rêvait l'indépendance, venait d'être moitié conquise, moitié vendue, et n'était sortie de l'esclavage de Gênes que pour tomber au pouvoir de la France. Paoli, vaincu...
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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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Extrait : "AURILLY, entrant : Cet appartement est-il prêt ? le feu dans les deux chambres ?... Bien ! A-t-on enlevé partout les verrous et les fermetures intérieures ?... Bien ! Maintenant, retenez ceci : Une personne va venir occuper cet appartement ; si quelqu'un de vous cherche à voir et à connaître cette personne, le cachot ! Il serait possible que vous entendissiez du bruit, des cris... Prenez garde ! car celui de vous qui répondrait soit...
18) Vingt ans après
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Une édition de référence des Vingt ans après d'Alexandre Dumas, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« Mais ce qui montrait encore mieux que tout cela que la simarre rouge n'était point celle du vieux cardinal, c'était cet isolement qui semblait, comme nous l'avons dit, plutt celui d'un fantme que celui d'un vivant; c'étaient ces corridors vides de courtisans, ces cours pleines de gardes; c'était le sentiment...
19) Camille
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A young man is captivated by a popular Parisian courtesan and attempts to build a life with her despite his family and society's growing disapproval. An against-all-odds tale that forces one lover to make a drastic decision for the betterment of the other.
A semi-autobiographical story inspired by author Alexandre Dumas' romance with Marie Duplessis. Camille centers Marguerite Gautier, a coveted courtesan who falls in love with the young gentleman,...
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On the very day of his wedding to the beautiful Mercedes, a young merchant sailor named Edmond Dantès is falsely imprisoned for life, laying to waste his plans of marriage and hard-earned fortune. Following several long years in prison he has managed to escape and reinvent himself as the mysterious Count of Monte Christo. It is the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Count has been plotting his revenge on the three men who had him falsely imprisoned....
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