e-books in Alexandre Dumas category
by Alexandre Dumas - Peter Fenelon Collier , 1893
It is May 1660 and the fate of nations is at stake. Mazarin plots, Louis XIV is in love, and Raoul de Bragelonne is intent on serving France and winning the heart of Louise de la Valliere. D'Artagnan is perplexed by a mysterious stranger ...
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by Alexandre Dumas - P.F. Collier , 1902
Ten Years Later is the third and last of the d'Artagnan Romances, following The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After. The principal heroes of the novel are the musketeers. The narrative of this novel is set between 1660 and 1673.
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by Alexander Dumas - J. S. Ogilvie , 1891
Taking the Bastile is the fourth in Dumas' six book series retelling the French Revolution. The book retells the events leading up to the storming of the Bastile through the POV of Ange Pitou a young orphan and his comrade in arms the farmer Billot.
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by Alexandre Dumas - G. Routledge , 1880
This short novel by Alexandre Dumas was originally published in 1844. The narrator of the story is Dumas himself. The well-crafted story, inviting atmosphere, and camaraderie among the characters provides for a pleasant and amusing read.
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by Alexandre Dumas - ManyBooks , 1845
Two decades have passed since the musketeers triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady. The fantastic adventures of the Three Musketeers continue - starting with an intrigue surrounding D'Artagnan who has, for twenty years, remained a lieutenant.
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by Alexandre Dumas - Project Gutenberg , 1997
The story begins with the 1672 lynching of the Dutch Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his brother, by a wild mob of their own countrymen. The plot line takes place in the following months; only gradually does the reader understand all the details.
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by Alexandre Dumas - Peter Fenelon Collier , 1893
On the 8th February, 1719, a carriage, with the motto of Orleans, preceded by two outriders and a page, entered the porch of the Abbey of Chelles, as the clock struck ten, and, the door having been quickly opened, its two occupants stepped out.
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by Alexandre Dumas - Peter Fenelon Collier , 1893
On the 22d of March, in the year of 1718, a young cavalier of high bearing, about twenty-six or twenty-eight years of age, mounted on a pure-bred Spanish charger, was waiting, toward eight o'clock in the morning, at that end of the Pont Neuf...
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by Alexandre Dumas - P. F. Collier & Son , 1900
A mysterious prisoner wearing an iron mask languishes deep within the Bastille. D'Artagnan and the Musketeers find themselves tangled in a web of intrigue when suspicions about the prisoner's identity begin to emerge. A gripping adventure novel.
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by Alexandre Dumas pere - Project Gutenberg , 2004
The contents of these volumes, as well as the motives which led to their inception, are unique. The book was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language -- has minced no words -- to describe the violent scenes of a violent time.
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by Alexandre Dumas - Oxford World's Classics , 1844
Mixing a bit of seventeenth-century French history with a great deal of invention, Alexandre Dumas tells the tale of young D'Artagnan and his musketeer comrades. Bursting with swirling swordplay, swooning romance, and unforgettable figures.
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by Alexandre Dumas pere - Project Gutenberg , 1998
The hero of this romantic novel, Edmond Dantes, is a young sailor who is unjustly accused and sentenced to life imprisonment in a French island fortress. After 14 years, Dantes makes a daring escape by taking the place of a dead companion.
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