The Vicomte de Bragelonne

by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet

Overview

The Vicomte de Bragelonne opens an epic adventure which continues with Louise de La Vallière and reaches its climax in The Man in the Iron Mask. This new edition of the classic translation presents a key episode in the Musketeers saga, fully annotated and with an introduction by a leading Dumas scholar.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789362925497
Publisher:	Alpha Edition
Publication date:	10/29/2024
Pages:	530
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.18(d)

About the Author

Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870) was a French writer. His works have been translated into nearly 100 languages and he is one of the most widely read French authors. Many of his historical novels of high adventure were originally published as serials, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later. His novels have been adapted since the early twentieth century for nearly 200 films. Dumas' last novel, The Knight of Sainte-Hermine, unfinished at his death, was completed by a scholar and published in 2005, becoming a bestseller. It was published in English in 2008 as The Last Cavalier. Prolific in several genres, Dumas began his career by writing plays, which were successfully produced from the first. He also wrote numerous magazine articles and travel books; his published works totaled 100,000 pages.

Editorial Reviews

"Alternately melodramatic, sentimental, humorous, wordly, and almost always absorbing."—The Irish Times

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