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  • CAMILLE
    ALEXANDRE DUMAS
    Armand falls in love with Marguerite and ultimately becomes her lover, convincing her to turn her back on her life as a "courtisane" and live with him in the countryside. This idyllic existence is broken by Armand's father, who, concerned by the scandal created by the illicit relationship and fearful that it will destroy his daughter's (Armand's sister's) chances of marriage, ...

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  • MAN IN THE IRON MASK
    ALEXANDRE DUMAS
    The Man in the Iron Mask is the exciting conclusion to the Three Musketeers' adventures. D'Artangan and the Musketeers must attempt tp rescue King Louis XIV's identical twin brother from prison to put him on the throne and thereby save Fouquet from being unfairly destroyed by King Louis. Dumas was the most generous, large-hearted being in the world. He also was the most delight...

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  • THE BLACK TULIP
    ALEXANDRE DUMAS
    Cornelius von Baerle, a respectable tulip-grower, lives only to cultivate the elusive black tulip and win a magnificent prize for its creation. But after his powerful godfather is assassinated, the unwitting Cornelius becomes caught up in deadly political intrigue and is falsely accused of high treason by a bitter rival. Condemned to life imprisonment, his only comfort is Rosa,...

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  • THE PRUSSIAN TERROR
    ALEXANDRE DUMAS
    Set in 1866 during the Austro-Prussian War, this exciting and masterfully-retold story is highly recommended for fans of the historical fiction, and constitutes a must-read for lovers of Dumas's seminal work. Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) was a famous French writer. He is best remembered for his exciting romantic sagas, including "The Three Musketeers" and "The Count of Monte Cri...

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  • THE MESMERIST'S VICTIM
    ALEXANDRE DUMAS
    Set in Paris during the French Revolution, „The Mesmerist’s Victim” tells the story of two star-crossed lovers whose romance blooms at an extremely inopportune moment in European history. Will they be able to find happiness together, or will they be swallowed up in the tumult of radical political and social change? „The Mesmerist’s Victim” is the second in Dumas’ fictional seri...

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  • THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
    ALEXANDRE DUMAS
    Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. Dumas’ epic tale of suffering...

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  • THE WOLF LEADER
    ALEXANDRE DUMAS
    A man makes a devil’s bargain with a mysterious wolf in one of the first werewolf novels ever written from the author of The Three Musketeers. When the shoemaker Thibault is unjustly abused by the Lord of Vez, he encounters an unlikely chance at revenge. A huge wolf approaches him, walking upright on its hind legs, and offers Thibault a pact. Every time he wishes harm on anothe...

    $59.00

  • THE FUTURE IS BLACK
    CARL A GRANT / MICHAEL J. DUMAS / ASHLEY N. WOODSON
    The Future is Black presents Afropessimism as an opportunity to think in provocative and disruptive ways about race, racial equality, multiculturalism, and the pursuit of educational justice. The vision is not a coherent, delimited conversation, but a series of experiences with Afropessimism as a radical analytic situated within critical Black studies. Activists, educators, car...

    $999.00

  • THE HERO OF THE PEOPLE A HISTORICAL ROMANCE OF LOVE, LIBERTY AND LOYALTY
    ALEXANDRE DUMAS
    Synopsis: The French Revolution had begun by the Taking of the Bastile by the people of Paris on the Fourteenth of July, 1789, but it seemed to have reached the high tide by King Louis XVI, with his Queen Marie Antoinette and others of the Royal Family, leaving Versailles, after some sanguinary rioting, for the Capital, Paris. But those who think, in such lulls of popular tempe...

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  • THE REGENT'S DAUGHTER
    ALEXANDRE DUMAS
    Chevalier Gaston de Chanley loves Helene de Chaverny, raised in a convent as an orphan but in reality the daughter of somebody very highly placed in early 18th century France. They long to be married, but Gaston has sworn an oath to a cabal of plotting Bretons to murder their enemy, the prince regent Philippe Duc D'Orleans. (Goodreads) ...

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  • THE COMPANIONS OF JEHU
    ALEXANDRE DUMAS
    The Companions of Jehu were formed in the Lyon region of France in April 1795 to hunt down Jacobins implicated in the Reign of Terror. It is possible that they were founded by The Marquis de Besignan, who also founded royalist underground groups in Forez and Dauphiné with the Prince of Condé in 1796.[5] Their victims are believed to have numbered at least in the hundreds. They ...

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  • THE ROYAL LIFE GUARD OR, THE FLIGHT OF THE ROYAL FAMILY
    ALEXANDRE DUMAS
    Synopsis: France had been changed to a limited monarchy from an absolute one, and King Louis XVI. had solemnly sworn to defend the new Constitution. But it had been remarked by shrewd observers that he had not attended the Te Deum at the Paris Cathedral, with the members of the National Assembly: that is, he would tell a lie but not commit perjury. The people were therefore on ...

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  • THE CORSICAN BROTHERS
    ALEXANDRE DUMAS
    The Corsican Brothers (French: Les Frères corses) is a novella by Alexandre Dumas, père, first published in 1844. It is the story of two conjoined brothers who, though separated at birth, can still feel each other's pains. It has been adapted many times on the stage and in film. The story starts in March 1841, when the narrator travels to Corsica and stays at the home of the wi...

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  • THE WOLF-LEADER
    ALEXANDRE DUMAS
    The Wolf Leader is an English translation by Alfred Allinson of Le Meneur de loups, an 1857 fantasy novel by Alexandre Dumas. Le Meneur de Loups is set around 1780 in Dumas' native town of Villers-Cotterêts, and is supposedly based on a local folk-tale Dumas heard as a child. The story concerns Thibault, a shoe-maker, who is beaten by the gamekeeper of the Lord of Vez for inter...

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  • THE FORTY-FIVE GUARDSMEN
    ALEXANDRE DUMAS
    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. Ma...

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  • DIE DREI MUSKETIERE
    ALEXANDRE DUMAS
    Die drei Musketiere ist ein Roman von Alexandre Dumas dem Älteren in Zusammenarbeit mit Auguste Maquet. Er ist der erste Teil einer Trilogie über d’Artagnan und seine drei Freunde Athos, Porthos und Aramis, die zu den Musketieren der Garde gehören. Im April des Jahres 1625 bricht der junge Gascogner d’Artagnan nach Paris auf, um Mitglied der Musketiere der Garde zu werden. In d...

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  • DIE SCHWARZE TULPE
    ALEXANDRE DUMAS
    Die schwarze Tulpe (französisch La Tulipe noire), eine Geschichte über den Tulpenzüchter Cornelius van Baerle und die schöne Rosa, ist einer der erfolgreichsten Romane von Alexandre Dumas. Niederlande, 1672: In einer Zeit politischer Wirren hat die Tulpengesellschaft von Haarlem einen Preis von 100.000 Gulden für denjenigen ausgesetzt, der eine schwarze Tulpe zu züchten vermag....

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  • DER GRAF VON MONTE CHRISTO ILLUSTRIERTE FASSUNG
    ALEXANDRE DUMAS
    Der Graf von Monte Christo (orig. Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) ist ein Abenteuerroman von Alexandre Dumas. Zwischen 1844 und 1846 veröffentlichte Dumas den Graf von Monte Christo als Fortsetzungsroman in der Zeitschrift Le Journal des débats und erzielte damit ungeahnten Erfolg. Noch bevor der Roman fertiggestellt war, erschienen bereits die ersten Nachdrucke, gefolgt von immer ne...

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  • CHICOT THE JESTER
    ALEXANDRE DUMAS
    A sequel of sorts to La Reine Margot, this is another classic romantic adventure set against the political in-fighting between Henri III and his brother Duc d'Anjou, as well as the religious wars that raged in the 16th century in France, spearheaded here by the dashing Henri de Guise, Le Balafré. (Excerpt from Goodreads) ...

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  • THE QUEEN'S NECKLACE
    ALEXANDRE DUMAS
    The Queen's Necklace dramatises an unsavoury incident in the 1780s at the court of King Louis XVI of France involving the King's wife, Marie Antoinette. Her reputation was already tarnished by gossip and scandal, and her implication in a crime involving a stolen necklace became one of the major turning-points of public opinion against the monarchy, which eventually culminated i...

    $39.70

  • THE PRUSSIAN TERROR
    ALEXANDRE DUMAS
    Set in 1866 during the Austro-Prussian War, this exciting and masterfully-retold story is highly recommended for fans of the historical fiction, and constitutes a must-read for lovers of Dumas s seminal work. (Excerpt from Goodreads) ...

    $39.70

  • THE THREE MUSKETEERS
    ALEXANDRE DUMAS
    Alexandre Dumas’s most famous tale— and possibly the most famous historical novel of all time. This swashbuckling epic of chivalry, honour, and derring-do, set in France during the 1620s, is richly populated with romantic heroes, unattainable heroines, kings, queens, cavaliers, and criminals in a whirl of adventure, espionage, conspiracy, murder, vengeance, love, scandal, and s...

    $39.70

  • THE SICILIAN BANDIT
    ALEXANDRE DUMAS
    Excerpt: "It is with cities as with men—chance presides over their foundation; and the topographical situation of the first, and the social position of the latter, exercise a beneficial or an evil influence over their entire existence. There are noble cities which, in their selfish pride of place, have refused to permit the erection even of a few humble cottages on the mountain...

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  • THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK
    ALEXANDRE DUMAS
    Dumas constructs the plot around the notion that the Man in the Iron Mask is the twin brother of Louis XIV, Philippe, who had been concealed and imprisoned from birth by his father, Louis XIII, and his mother, Anne of Austria, "for the good of France". Only a very few people living at the start of the novel know of Philippe's existence; these include his mother, Anne, and her f...

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  • TAKING THE BASTILLE OR PITOU THE PEASANT
    ALEXANDRE DUMAS
    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 ...

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  • THE CONSPIRATORS
    ALEXANDRE DUMAS
    The Conspirators (original French title: Le chevalier d'Harmental) is a novel written by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet, published in 1843. Dumas reworked a preliminary version by Maquet; this was the beginning of their collaboration which was to produce eighteen novels and many plays.[1] The dramatisation of the novel – in five acts, a prologue and ten tableaux – was first...

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  • THE MESMERIST'S VICTIM
    ALEXANDRE DUMAS
    Set in Paris during the French Revolution, The Mesmerist's Victim tells a tale of star-crossed lovers whose romance blooms at an extremely inopportune moment in history. Will they be able to find happiness together, or will they be swallowed up in the tumult of radical political and social change? (Excerpt from Goodreads) ...

    $39.70

  • BALSAMO THE MAGICIAN OR THE MEMOIRS OF A PHYSICIAN
    ALEXANDRE DUMAS
    Features one of the strangest characters in literature, Joseph Balsamo, also known as Cagliostro (later a key figure in the Affair of the Necklace). An alchemist, conspirator, and Freemason, Balsamo figures prominently in the eventual downfall of the French monarchy. (Excerpt from Goodreads) ...

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  • THE LAST VENDÉE OR THE SHE-WOLVES OF MACHECOUL
    ALEXANDRE DUMAS
    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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  • THE VICOMTE DE BRAGELONNE
    ALEXANDRE DUMAS
    The Vicomte de Bragelonne opens an epic adventure which continues with Louise de La Valliere and reaches its climax in The Man in the Iron Mask. As the third instalment of the d'Artagnan Romances, this book serves as a transition from the notorious three musketeers and their Gascon friend to the lives of other French and English characters - youth usurping inevitable age and po...

    $39.70


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