Alexandre Dumas: 1659 books

Il romanzo ricomincia vent'anni dopo le vicende raccontate ne I tre moschettieri. Il cardinale Richelieu è morto nel 1642 ed è stato sostituito dal cardinale italiano Giulio Mazarino, “odiato” da gran parte del popolo; era morto anche il re Luigi XIII, lasciando Luigi XIV, il Re Sole, ancora...

Revenge, murder, hidden treasure, and epic adventure! Dumas' masterpiece The Count of Monte Cristo details the wrongful imprisonment of the young sailor Edmond Dantes, a character whose transformation and ultimate revenge has been the archetype for myriad Dark Heroes.

The landmark novel that inspired Verdi’s opera La Traviata, in a sparkling new translation "One of the greatest love stories of all time," according to Henry James, and the inspiration for Verdi’s opera La Traviata, the Oscar-winning musical Moulin Rouge!, and numerous ballets,...

Extrêmement célèbre, ce remarquable ouvrage écrit en 1850 est considéré comme un récit à part dans l'œuvre de Dumas. En 1672, Guillaume d'Orange prend le pouvoir en Hollande, profitant du massacre par le peuple des frères Jean et Corneille de Witt, accusés de tractations secrètes avec...

The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later is the final book in Dumas' d'Artagnon Romances trilogy. The book is in four parts, of which this is the second. According to French academic Jean-Yves Tadie, the real subject of the book is the beginning of King Louis XIV's rule.

Le XIXe siècle, âge d’or de la nouvelle s’il en est, marque l’avènement de la presse écrite. Les journaux connaissent un succès croissant et attirent les plus grands auteurs qui y publient leurs nouvelles en marge de l'actualité. Les rubriques « faits divers » suscitent aussi...

Le vrai d'Artagnan incarnait déjà le courage et le panache. Arrangée par le génial Dumas, sa rencontre avec le colossal Porthos, le précieux Aramis, Athos le grand seigneur, le propulse dans la légende et la jeunesse éternelle. " Tous pour un, un pour tous ! " Avec eux, il défie Richelieu...

Le roman «Le chevalier de maison rouge» fait partie d’une série des romans d’Aleksandre Dumas de la Révolution française. L’histoire, aventures, beaux ou mauvais sentiments, nobles hommes ou immondes humains nous entraînent dans la France de la terreur. La description d’une terrible...

Édition enrichie (Notes, répertoire des personnages et notice historique) Aramis tente l’impossible, l’invraisemblable, et il est sur le point de réussir, dans une entreprise qui bouleverserait le cours de l’Histoire, mais celle-ci reprend ses droits… Il n’y a plus de place pour...

It is possible that our reader, whose recollections may perhaps go back as far as the Restoration, will be surprised at the size of the frame required for the picture we are about to bring before him, embracing as it does two centuries and a half; but as everything, has its precedent, every river...

The Three Musketeers (1844) is one of the most famous historical novels ever written. It is also one of the world's greatest historical adventure stories, and its heroes have become symbols for the spirit of youth, daring, and comradeship. The action takes place in the 1620s at the court of Louis...

The Count of Monte Cristo is a classic adventure story about a man who is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes from jail and sets out to gain his revenge. Set between the end of the Napoleonic wars in 1815 and 1838 during the reign of Louis-Philippe, the historical setting of the novel is fundamental,...

The young Gascon d'Artagnan and the legendary musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis are ready to sacrifice everything for love, glory and the common good. The wicked machinations of Cardinal Richelieu and his accomplice, the magnetic Milady de Winter, propel the devoted friends across seas and battlefields...

Fans of historical fiction will love The Queen's Necklace Dumas' gripping retelling of the Affair of the Necklace a suspicious incident of theft in the court of Louis XVI that some experts say set into motion a chain of events that resulted in the eventual downfall of the monarchy.