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Download or read book La Reine Margot written by Alexandre Dumas and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LA REINE MARGOT (1845) is a novel of suspense and drama which recreates the violent world of intrigue, murder, and duplicity of the French Renaissance. This revised edition of the classic translation of 1846 is richly annotated. An Introduction sets Dumas and his works in their literary, historical, and cultural context.

Download or read book The Man In The Iron Mask written by Alexandre Dumas and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2015-10-02 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas: "The Man in the Iron Mask" by Alexandre Dumas is a historical adventure novel that is part of the famous "d'Artagnan Romances" series. The story explores the mystery of a prisoner in an iron mask and the adventures of the musketeers. Key Aspects of the Book "The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas": Historical Adventure: Dumas' novel is set in the historical context of the reign of Louis XIV and features swashbuckling adventures, political intrigue, and palace conspiracies. Mystery and Identity: The book centers on the mystery surrounding the identity of the man in the iron mask, leading to questions of royal lineage and hidden secrets. Classic Adventure Literature: "The Man in the Iron Mask" is a beloved classic known for its thrilling narrative and memorable characters. Alexandre Dumas was a French writer known for his historical adventure novels, including the "d'Artagnan Romances." "The Man in the Iron Mask" is one of his iconic works that continues to captivate readers with its intrigue and adventure.

Download or read book The MAN in the IRON MASK Annotated written by Alexandre Dumas and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the beginning, there was The Three Musketeers. Next, there was Twenty Years After. Finally, there was The Vicomte de Bragelonne. Together, the three books are known as Alexandre Dumas's D'Artagnan Romances and cover many years of adventures and swordfights, chronicling the lives of four Musketeers. The books were originally published in serial form, meaning they appeared one chapter at a time in the Parisian newspaper Le Siécle. This explains why Dumas's chapters are fairly self-contained and tend to end with a cliff hanger. He needed to retain readers. You can think of the serial form as the 18th century equivalent of a weekly sitcom that keeps the attention of its audience from one week to the next. When The Vicomte de Bragelonne was put together for publication in book form, English translators took one look and realized it was too long. They typically break it up into smaller volumes - sometimes three, sometimes four. No matter how they slice it, they always entitle the last chunk The Man in the Iron Mask. The Man in the Iron Mask takes place thirty-five years after The Three Musketeers. We meet our heroes - Athos, D'Artagnan, Aramis, and Porthos - as they encounter some serious responsibilities and challenges. The story takes place at the court of King Louis XIV. At court we discover that there are plenty of intrigues in which heroes are involved, including an interesting situation concerning a mysterious man in an iron mask. The Man in the Iron Mask is the darker, more grown-up aftermath of The Three Musketeers, and as you can see in "Themes," the past figures heavily in this novel. By the end of the novel, King Louis XIV has ushered in an era of absolute power, where his word is law and he accepts no dissent. One way to view this book is to see it as the end of an era - the dissolution of a famous friendship and the end of fractured loyalties within a kingdom. For those of you who are historically inclined, you can try reading The Man in the Iron Mask and try to understand how Dumas might also be commenting on the political situation in his own contemporary France. By glorifying the past through creating the beloved characters of D'Artagnan, Athos, Aramis, and Porthos, Dumas reminded his readers of what they might be missing in their own France.

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Download or read book The Red Sphinx written by Alexandre Dumas and published by Pegasus Books. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in English in over a century, a new translation of the forgotten sequel to Dumas’s The Three Musketeers, continuing the dramatic tale of Cardinal Richelieu and his implacable enemies. In 1844, Alexandre Dumas published The Three Musketeers, a novel so famous and still so popular today that it scarcely needs introduction. Shortly thereafter he wrote a sequel, Twenty Years After, that resumed the adventures of his swashbuckling heroes. Later, toward the end of his career, Dumas wrote The Red Sphinx, another direct sequel to The Three Musketeers that begins, not twenty years later, but a mere twenty days afterward. The Red Sphinx picks up right where the The Three Musketeers left off, continuing the stories of Cardinal Richelieu, Queen Anne, and King Louis XIII—and introducing a charming new hero, the Comte de Moret, a real historical figure from the period. A young cavalier newly arrived in Paris, Moret is an illegitimate son of the former king, and thus half-brother to King Louis. The French Court seethes with intrigue as king, queen, and cardinal all vie for power, and young Moret soon finds himself up to his handsome neck in conspiracy, danger—and passionate romance! Dumas wrote seventy-five chapters of The Red Sphinx, all for serial publication, but he never quite finished it, and so the novel languished for almost a century before its first book publication in France in 1946. While Dumas never completed the book, he had earlier written a separate novella, The Dove, that recounted the final adventures of Moret and Cardinal Richelieu. Now for the first time, in one cohesive narrative, The Red Sphinx and The Dove make a complete and satisfying storyline—a rip-roaring novel of historical adventure, heretofore unknown to English-language readers, by the great Alexandre Dumas, king of the swashbucklers.