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Twenty Years After

Twenty Years After( )
Author: Dumas, Alexandre
Introduction by: Murphy, Bruce F.
Series title:Barnes and Noble Library of Essential Reading Ser.
ISBN:978-1-4114-2924-6
Publication Date:Sep 2009
Publisher:Barnes & Noble, Incorporated
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $3.99
Book Description:

Twenty Years After (1845) resumes the adventures of Alexandre Dumas fabulous four begun in The Three Musketeers. "The inseparables"--Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and the irrepressible Gascon, dArtagnan--are once again called upon to save France from itself. This time, the paragons of honor, chivalry, and justice find themselves embroiled not only in court intrigue and royal affairs (including the Queens illicit liaison with her first minister, Cardinal...
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Pages:704
Author Biography
Dumas, Alexandre. (Author)
After an idle youth, Alexandre Dumas went to Paris and spent some years writing. A volume of short stories and some farces were his only productions until 1927, when his play Henri III (1829) became a success and made him famous. It was as a storyteller rather than a playwright, however, that Dumas gained enduring success. Perhaps the most broadly popular of French romantic novelists, Dumas published some 1,200 volumes during his lifetime. These were not all written by him, however, but were the works of a body of collaborators known as "Dumas & Co." Some of his best works were plagiarized. For example, The Three Musketeers (1844) was taken from the Memoirs of Artagnan by an eighteenth-century writer, and The Count of Monte Cristo (1845) from Penchet's A Diamond and a Vengeance. At the end of his life, drained of money and sapped by his work, Dumas left Paris and went to live at his son's villa, where he remained until his death.

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