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A tale of mystery, adventure, and political intrigue, this conclusion to Dumas’ swashbuckling musketeer saga is based on the true story of a masked prisoner who dwelled in the Bastille during the Louis XIV’s reign and whose identity remains in question to this day.

Regal and dazzlingly beautiful, Mary Stuarts succumbed to the irresistible impulses of passion and gambled away her throne for love in a deadly game of power against her envious cousin, Elizabeth I. She not only lost her kingdom, but also her life. Betrayed by those she trusted most, pampered and adored even as she was led to her own beheading, she remained an enigma five centuries after her death.

One for all and all for one! Crossed swords, intrigue, romance, and swashbuckling adventure accompany literature's most famous swordsmen as they set off on an action-packed journey to save nothing less than the throne of France.

Edmond Dantès, an innocent young sailor, falls into despair when he is arrested on a false charge of treason and thrown into prison without a trial. He learns of his friends' betrayal from the Abbé Faria, an equally innocent prisoner, and plots his revenge following a daring, if nightmarish escape from the Chateau d'If. After becoming a wealthy man, he assumes the guise of the urbane Count of Monte-Cristo and begins to entrap his enemies one by one.

L'action du roman se déroule entre 1572, date du mariage de Marguerite de Valois avec Henri de Navarre, futur Henri IV, et la mort de Charles IX de France en 1574. Alexandre Dumas y met en scène les intrigues de cour, l'assassinat de l'amiral de Coligny, le massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy, l'idylle inventée entre la reine de Navarre et le comte de la Mole ainsi que la pratique de la torture judiciaire à la Renaissance. Il fait de Catherine de Médicis une figure inquiétante, se servant de son astrologue et parfumeur Côme Ruggieri pour faire assassiner ses ennemis. Le roman met aussi en scène la conspiration visant à rendre la Navarre à son roi.

The novel, a deceptively simple story, is set in Holland in 1672 during the amazing tulipmania of the 17th century that brought wealth to some and ruin to many. The story weaves the historical events surrounding the brutal murder of John de Witte and his brother Cornelius into a tale of romantic love. The novel is also a political allegory in which Dumas makes his case against tyranny and puts all his energies into creating a symbol of justice and tolerance: the fateful tulipa negra.

L'action se situe en 1625, sous le règne de Louis XIII. D'Artagnan, jeune gascon courageux et rusé, est muni d'une lettre de recommandation de son père pour M. de Tréville, commandant des Mousquetaires. Très vite, il devient l'ami de trois gentilshommes, mousquetaires du roi, Athos, Porthos et Aramis. Tous quatre vont sauver la reine Anne d'Autriche des perfides manœuvres de Richelieu. Des aventures semées d'embûches qui ne feront pas renoncer les quatre compères.

In Celebrated Crimes [eight volumes: this version, 1895], Dumas the elder, recognised master of historical fiction (The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers) turns to historical fact. In this volume: Joan of Naples. The much-married queen does what she must to survive ‘the violence and treachery of this barbarous age’. ‘An angel soiled by crime, she lied like Satan himself .’ The Man in The Iron Mask (an essay). How much of the well-known story is fact, and how much fiction?

Our lovable and headstrong hero D'Artagnan bounds from one brush with death to another, uncovering a plot orchestrated by Cardinal Richelieu that threatens the beautiful Queen Anne of Austria and the entire Kingdom of France. Together with his friends Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, he must stop at nothing to thwart the Cardinal's murderous schemes and rescue the love of his life in a quest that takes him to all corners of 17th Century France and beyond.

El Conde de Monte Cristo, el audio libro dramatizado en espanol basado en la historia original de Alejandro Dumas, es una de las novelas de amor y venganza mas populares de todos los tiempos. Es la historia de Edmundo Dantes, joven marinero, quien es injustamente puesto prisionero por traicion. Despues de varios anos de prision, tras escapar, Dantes asume el rol del Conde de Monte Cristo para llevar a cabo su planeada venganza.

The story of France from the Renaissance to the 19th century, as Dumas vibrantly retold it in his numerous enormously popular novels, has long been absent one vital, richly historical era: the Age of Napoleon. But no longer. Now dynamically, in a tale of family honor and undying vengeance, of high adventure and heroic derring-do, The Last Cavalier fills that gap.

The young and headstrong D'Artagnan, having proven his bravery by dueling with each, becomes a friend of Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, members of the King's Musketeers. At the urging of the woman he loves, he and his friends head for England to reclaim two diamond studs that the Queen imprudently gave to her lover, the Duke of Buckingham. However, the chief minister of King Louis XIII will resort to anything to stop the Musketeers from interfering with his plan to ruin Queen Anne’s reputation…even murder.

Der junge, aus verarmten Landadel stammende d'Artangnan verlässt seine gascognische Heimat und zieht nach Paris, um sich in den Dienst König Ludwigs XIII. zu stellen...

Tous pour un et un pour tous, Athos, Porthos, Aramis initient le jeune d'Artagnan à la vie de mousquetaire du roi Louis XIII. Ensemble, ils combattent l'énigmatique et cruelle Milady, et déjouent les pièges retords de leur ennemi juré, le cardinal de Richelieu. Les péripéties rocambolesques, ainsi que le ton à la fois tendre et moqueur de Dumas, ont fait de ce texte un classique incontournable du renouveau romantique du XIXème siècle.

In The Three Musketeers, one of the greatest adventure stories ever written, we follow the fortunes of the dashing young swordsman D'Artagnan and his daredevil companions Athos, Aramis, and Porthos. As the thrilling story unfolds, "The Four" find themselveds embroiled in duels, love tangles, and sinister intrigues which threaten the furtue of the king, the queen, and France herself.

I Alexandre Dumas spännande äventyrsklassiker får vi följa den unge och modige D'Artagnan som just anlänt till Paris. Hans livs största dröm är att få ingå i den ärofulla grupp av elitsoldater vars uppgift är att skydda den franske kungen. Han lär känna de tre musketörerna Athos, Porthos och Aramis och de blir snabbt oskiljaktiga vänner.

"The Black Tulip" is a historical novel written by Alexandre Dumas. The story begins with a historical event - the 1672 lynching of the Dutch Grand Pensionary (roughly equivalent to a modern Prime Minister) Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis, by a wild mob of their own countrymen - considered by many as one of the most painful episodes in Dutch history, described by Dumas with a dramatic intensity.

Nel 1625 il giovane guascone d'Artagnan si reca da Monsignor De Treville a Parigi con in tasca una lettera di di raccomandazione del padre, con la speranza di entrare nei Moschettieri del Re Luigi XIII. Ma durante il viaggio gli viene rubata la lettera ed inavvertitamente provoca i tre migliori moschettieri del re e si trova così sfidato a duello nel medesimo luogo da tutti e tre, l'uno all'insaputa dell'altro. Cominciano così le avventure del giovane, impetuoso ed orgoglioso d'Artagnan!

Nel cuore dei monti Carpazi, nell'imponente ed antico castello della famiglia Brankovan, due principi, Gregoriska e Kostaki si sfidano per conquistare la bella Edvige, giovane nobildonna polacca sopravvissuta alle truppe russe, ma non alla bramosia del giovane Kostaki che la rapisce e la conduce al castello.

"Un giovanotto... facciamone brevemente un ritratto: immaginate don Chisciotte a diciott'anni, ma un don Chisciotte senza la corazza, senza la cotta e senza cosciali, vestito con una giubba di lana il cui colore blu s'era trasformato in una tinta indefinibile, tra il mosto di vino e il celestino." I tre moschettieri, grande classico della letteratura francese, conserva una freschezza strabiliante per i giorni nostri e contiene la dirompenza dell'epica cavalleresca.