Download or read book Alexandre Dumas 40 Historical Novels Adventure Classics True Crime Stories Illustrated written by Alexandre Dumas and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-07 with total page 7711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexandre Dumas' collection features over 40 historical novels, adventure classics, and true crime stories, each illustrated to immerse the reader in the rich and vivid world he creates. Known for his intricate plots, colorful characters, and captivating storytelling, Dumas blends history with fiction flawlessly, offering a unique perspective on various historical events. His writing style is engaging and descriptive, drawing readers in with its intensity and drama. This collection showcases Dumas' versatility as a writer, from swashbuckling adventures to intricate mysteries, appealing to a wide range of literary tastes. The historical backdrop adds depth and authenticity to the narratives, making them both entertaining and educational. Alexandre Dumas himself was a prolific writer with a keen interest in history, fueling his passion for storytelling. His own experiences and observations undoubtedly influenced the themes and characters he weaves into his tales. With this comprehensive collection, readers can truly appreciate Dumas' genius and immerse themselves in the world of his timeless classics. I highly recommend this book to anyone looking for an immersive reading experience filled with adventure, intrigue, and historical insights.
Download or read book Adventure Guide to Switzerland written by Kimberly Rinker and published by Hunter Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2006 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation A detailed guide to every aspect of the destination: history, culture, foods, restaurants, hotels, sightseeing, things to do - written by an author who knows the place intimately and is a long-time resident. The history and culture, the climbs, hikes and walks, the rivers trips - it's all here!
Download or read book Finding Monte Cristo written by Eric Martone and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his lifetime, Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)--grandson of a Caribbean slave and author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo--faced racial prejudice in his homeland of France and constantly strove to find a sense of belonging. For him, "Monte Cristo" was a symbol of this elusive quest. It proved equally elusive for those struggling to overcome slavery and its legacy in the former French colonies. Exiled to the margins of society, 19th and 20th century black intellectuals from the Caribbean and Africa drew on Dumas' work and celebrity to renegotiate their full acceptance as French citizens. Their efforts were influenced by earlier struggles of African Americans in the decades after the Civil War, who celebrated Dumas as a black American hero.
Download or read book The Swiss written by Walter Sorell and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alexandre and Simone the Two Musketeers written by Marilyn Ekdahl Ravicz and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2005-01-31 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the many mysteries of life is a curious one which some people come to sense in themselves: an odd but compelling feeling of relationship to someone from another time, place and maybe another sex. This peculiar feeling, as reported by those who experience it, makes us wonder about the basic nature of any assumed relationship which traverses space and time. Is it real? Can relationships traverse time and space? Or are such intimations simply odd reflections or symbols of convergent personal interests which animate us to act in patterned ways? Or do they verge on being like actual Doppelgngers; repeated embodiments of energy which are transformed into so many patterns through time that inevitably repetitions occur which draw persons together? The novel Alexandre and Simone, The Two Musketeers makes no attempt to answer these unanswerable questions, but chips away at the fundaments of the idea that shared human patterns and values can and do transverse time and geography to be repeatedly embodied. Every life, no matter how simple, has drama; and sometimes the drama resembles a replay of previous lives, whether this idea is recognized and accepted or not. Those of like interests are drawn to one another across time. The two main characters of the novel include: Alexandre Dumas, the famous writer and passionate rake who lived in late revolutionary France, and Simone Dahlgren, a passionate young California scholar, dedicated collector and dealer in fine antiquarian books, artists books and manuscripts. These two characters share parallel interests, flaws and compelling obsessions which are expressed differently, but which also converge, seem similar, conflict and ultimately cause pain as well as great joy. Alexandre, a prodigious word-master and extravagant lover of the arts, food and women, stalks through his life like a Titan of verbal expression and flaming erotic passions. Simone, whose passions include art and words in literature, shares many of Alexandres peculiar obsessions and, yes, some of the same flaws. Both are extravagant, intelligent but generally non-reflective about themselves, and thus lack personal insight. They are profligate with money, but generous and basically loving, even when stubbornly foolish. But most of all they love words, often reducing and deflecting life-experiences and problems into mere words and aesthetic satisfactions. Words, in one form or another, occupy their days and shape their struggles and relationships. Alexandres compulsive writing is fed by two linked drives: the need to earn money, and his intrinsic obsession to spill words into tales and romantic dramas about acts of derring-do and erotic passion. Simones compulsive word-orientation provides escape from personal chaos through aesthetic and intellectual satisfaction, and feeds her depleted finances at the same time. She becomes a fine art and antiquarian book dealer/collector. The sum of these ingredients creates curious emotional joys and quandries as they both fall on the sword of frustrated love, tragedy, failure and even success. Alexandre rushes through life, writing and loving day and night, and acting in ways which require exile to escape political censure. But he finds that his travels are shadowed by murders, even in that haven for political refugees, Switzerland. He cannot escape his obsessions which entrap him in plots of eruptive social and political change wherever he travels. Indeed, in spite of his fertile imagination in creating and resolving plots, he is only able to discover the murderer of his best friends at the point of a pistol aimed at him. Alexandres travels, love affairs, his wild imagination and political dedications are reflected in his written dramas and novels which continue to thrill readers with their romantic escapades long after his death. Oddly, most of his problems and their solutions emanated from his passionate dedication to written or spoken words. As such, his legacy
Download or read book International Companion Encyclopedia of Children s Literature written by Peter Hunt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children's literature continues to be one of the most rapidly expanding and exciting of interdisciplinary academic studies, of interest to anyone concerned with literature, education, internationalism, childhood or culture in general. The second edition of Peter Hunt's bestselling International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature offers comprehensive coverage of the subject across the world, with substantial, accessible, articles by specialists and world-ranking experts. Almost everything is here, from advanced theory to the latest practice – from bibliographical research to working with books and children with special needs. This edition has been expanded and includes over fifty new articles. All of the other articles have been updated, substantially revised or rewritten, or have revised bibliographies. New topics include Postcolonialism, Comparative Studies, Ancient Texts, Contemporary Children's Rhymes and Folklore, Contemporary Comics, War, Horror, Series Fiction, Film, Creative Writing, and 'Crossover' literature. The international section has been expanded to reflect world events, and now includes separate articles on countries such as the Baltic states, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Iran, Korea, Mexico and Central America, Slovenia, and Taiwan.
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Download or read book Intl Comp Ency Child Lit E2 V1 written by Peter Hunt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 1310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children's literature continues to be one of the most rapidly expanding and exciting of interdisciplinary academic studies, of interest to anyone concerned with literature, education, internationalism, childhood or culture in general. This edition has been expanded and includes over 50 new articles. New topics include Postcolonialism, Comparative Studies, Ancient Texts, Contemporary Children's Rhymes and Folklore, Contemporary Comics, War, Horror, Series Fiction, Film, Creative Writing, and 'Crossover' literature. The international section has been expanded to reflect world events.
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Download or read book The Boys Adventure MEGAPACK written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 6230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Boys' Adventure Megapack collects 20 great adventure stories for boys, from classics like "The Call of the Wild" to war stories like the adventures of Dave Dawson, from science fiction like Tom Swift, Jr. to historical fiction like Tarzan of the Apes and The Count of Monte Cristo. Rollicking adventure stories for the young and young at heart! Included are: THE CALL OF THE WILD, by Jack London TREASURE ISLAND, by Robert Louis Stevenson KIDNAPPED, by Robert Louis Stevenson THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON, by Johann David Wyss FIVE CHILDREN AND IT, by E. Nesbit TOM SWIFT AND THE VISITOR FROM PLANET X, by Victor Appleton II TOM SWIFT AND THE ELECTRONIC HYDROLUNG, by Victor Appleton II TARZAN OF THE APES, by Edgar Rice Burroughs THE RETURN OF TARZAN, by Edgar Rice Burroughs DAVE DAWSON AT DUNKIRK, by R. Sidney Bowen DAVE DAWSON WITH THE R.A.F., by R. Sidney Bowen DAVE DAWSON ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT, by R. Sidney Bowen DAVE DAWSON ON GUADALCANAL, by R. Sidney Bowen DAVE DAWSON AT CASABLANCA, by R. Sidney Bowen DAVE DAWSON AT TRUK, by R. Sidney Bowen DAVE DASHAWAY AND HIS HYDROPLANE, by Roy Rockwood ADRIFT IN THE WILDS: THE ADVENTURES OF TWO SHIPWRECKED BOYS, by Edward S. Ellis AMONG MALAY PIRATES, by G. A. Henty KIM, by Rudyard Kipling THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO, by Alexandre Dumas And don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for more entries in Wildside Press's Megapack series, ranging from science fiction and fantasy to westerns, mysteries, ghost stories -- and much, much more!
Download or read book The Big Book of Swashbuckling Adventure written by Lawrence Ellsworth and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word “swashbuckler” conjures up an indelible image: a hero who’s a bit of a rogue but has his own code of honor, an adventurer with laughter on his lips and a flashing sword in his hand. This larger-than-life figure is regularly declared passé, but the swashbuckler is too appealing to ever really die. Who wouldn’t want to face deadly danger with confidence and élan? Who can deny the thrill of clashing blades, hairbreadth escapes, and daring rescues, of facing vile treachery with dauntless courage and passionate devotion?The swashbuckler tradition was born out of legends like the Knights of the Round Table and of Robin Hood, revived in the early 19th century by authors such as Sir Walter Scott, then caught hold with the publication of Alexandre Dumas’ The Three Musketeers in 1844. For the next century, it was arguably the world’s leading form of adventure fiction.Featuring selections by twenty hugely popular writers from the last century including Rafael Sabatini; Johnston McCulley (creator of the Zorro character); Alexandre Dumas, Arthur Conan Doyle; and Pierce Egan, author of Robin Hood, this anthology is dedicated to the swashbuckler’s roots: historical adventures by masters of the genre. Most of these stories have been out of print for decades; some have never before been collected in book form.
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