By: Alexandre Dumas
This classic love story follows the life of Marguerite Gautier, the most sought-after courtesan in Paris, who casts aside her upper-class lifestyle for commoner Armand Duval, but their love is challenged by the constraints of society. Reprint.
By: Alexandre Dumas
'A major new translation of a forgotten classic Paris, 1793, the onset of the Terror. Brave Republican Maurice rescues a mys-terious and beautiful woman from an angry mob and is unknowingly drawn into a secret Royalist plot--a plot revolving...
By: Alexandre Dumas
Written at a point of crisis in his life, A Tale of Two Cities is the embodiment of Dickens' own passions and fears: the revolution which engulfs the characters symbolizes his own psychological revolution, and the three main characters become...
By: Alexandre Dumas
It's 'one for all and all for one!' as D'Artagnan and his three pals followa course of swashbuckling intrigue and adventure in 17th-centry France.
By: Alexandre Dumas
Retells the four Musketeers’ final adventure during which they plot to replace King Louis XIV of France with the mysterious, masked prisoner in the Bastille believed to be Louis’s falsely imprisoned twin brother and the true king....
By: Alexandre Dumas
In my opinion, it is impossible to create characters until one has spent a long time in studying men, as it is impossible to speak a language until it has been seriously acquired. Not being old enough to invent, I content myself with narrating, and I...
By: Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas, père (French for 'father', akin to Senior in English), born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (1802-1870) was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely...
By: Alexandre Dumas
A major new translation of a stunning rediscovered novel by Alexandre Dumas, Georges is a classic swashbuckling adventure. Brilliantly translated by Tina A. Kover in lively, fluid prose, this is Dumas’s most daring work, in which his themes of...
By: Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas, père (French for 'father', akin to Senior in English), born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (1802-1870) was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely...
By: Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas, père (French for 'father', akin to Senior in English), born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (1802-1870) was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely...
By: Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas, pere (French for 'father', akin to Senior in English), born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (1802-1870) was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read...
By: Alexandre Dumas
Louise de la Valliere is the middle section of The Vicomte de Bragelonne, or, Ten Years After. Against a tender love story, Dumas continues the suspense which began with The Vicomte de Bragelonne and will end with The Man in the Iron Mask. Set...
By: Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas, père (French for 'father', akin to Senior in English), born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (1802-1870) was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely...
By: Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas, père (French for 'father', akin to Senior in English), born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (1802-1870) was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely...
By: Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas, père (French for 'father', akin to Senior in English), born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (1802-1870) was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely...
By: Alexandre Dumas
Written at the height of the 1848 revolutions, Alexandre Dumas' One Thousand and One Ghosts is a macabre collection of supernatural tales, told with unrelenting detail and almost unbearable suspense. Paralyzed with fear, a man confesses to the murder...
By: Alexandre Dumas
A story of romantic love in Holland during the Renaissance, this historical novel describes the murder of John de Witte and his brother Cornelius under the hands of tyrants. And the black tulip? A symbol of justice and the end of oppression.
By: Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas weaves the compelling story of Siamese twins who are separated physically but never in spirit. When one of the brothers is murdered, the other leaves Corsica for Paris to avenge the killing. Dumas brings this thrilling tale to life...
By: Alexandre Dumas
Imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, Edmond Dantès spends 14 bitter years in a dungeon. When his daring escape plan works he uses all he has learned during his incarceration to mastermind an elaborate plan of revenge that will bring punishment...
By: Alexandre Dumas
On the night before his wedding, an innocent young man is arrested and imprisoned. How could such a thing have happened? When he finally discovers the truth, he bitterly plots revenge. Then he escapes of prison and begins to punish his enemies, one...
By: Alexandre Dumas
Best-selling author Alexandre Dumas--who also wrote The Three Musketeers--tells this heartbreaking yet heroic tale of Edmond Dantes who takes revenge on the men responsible for his unjust fourteen-year imprisonment, keeping him from the...
By: Alexandre Dumas
When Edmond Dantès is imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, he vows to escape and destroy those who betrayed him.With his former life a distant memory, revenge drives him forward. Using the fortune left to him by Abbe Faria, he transforms...
By: Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas, père (French for 'father', akin to Senior in English), born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (1802-1870) was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely...
By: Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas was already a best-selling novelist when he wrote this historical romance, combining (as he claimed) the two essentials of life--'l'action et l'amour.' The Man in the Iron Mask concludes the epic adventures of the three Muskateers,...
By: Alexandre Dumas
The mysterious prisoner is called Marchiali- but is that his true name? And why has an innocent man been imprisoned for so long? The fabled three musketeers suspect a royal conspiracy. But there are deadly dangers in confronting the royal family. The...
By: Alexandre Dumas
It is 1660, and thirty-five years have passed since d'Artagnan and the three musketeers first met in Paris and swore loyalty to each other with their famous cry: 'One for all and all for one'.Now, only d'Artagnan remains in the service of the...
By: Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas, père (French for 'father', akin to Senior in English), born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (1802-1870) was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely...
By: Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas, père (French for 'father', akin to Senior in English), born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (1802-1870) was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely...
By: Alexandre Dumas
Roman de Violette is the tale of a beautiful girl, the object of desire for both a young man and a rather determined lesbian, culminating in a fabulous menage-a-trois. The book is attributed (on scant evidence) to Dumas, though we at Olympia at...
By: Alexandre Dumas
Young D'Artagnan has only one ambition, to be a King's Musketeer some day. With this dream he arrives in Paris. Monsieur de Treville, however, makes him a member of the King's Guards, and promises that if he proves his worth he can become a...