Le brillant roman d’Alexander Dumas «Vingt ans après» sur l’honneur et la fierté, sur le courage et l’amour, sur les lames fidèles et les cœurs fidèles a été écrit après le roman «Les Trois Mousquetaires» et en est la suite directe. Il a autant d’esprit, d’amusement et de rebondissements inattendus que dans le premier livre. Les aventures des braves mousquetaires – d’Artagnan, Athos, Porthos et Aramis – se poursuivent parmi les terribles événements historiques qui ont dispe...

The novel contains love and betrayal, kindness and vileness. The key point in the book is the capture of the famous Bastille. The book will appeal not only to lovers of historical novels, but also simply to lovers of history. Ange Pitu is an orphan who lives after his mother’s death with Aunt Angelica, who is a rather funny example of greed and duplicity. After expelling Abbot Fortier from school, Ange settles on the farm to his good friend Billot, where he falls into the h...

Dumas tries to be as accurate and truthful as possible. The book sets out a detailed history of three real crimes. And despite the documentary, the story turned out to be dramatic and interesting. Investigating the topic of crime and punishment, the writer moves freely in time and space. The reader then gets into Italy of the Renaissance, then in France at the beginning of the XIX century. The fates of people are intertwined with the fates of entire nations. Ominous events,...

Dalsze losy wielopokoleniowego rodu polskich rycerzy. Ostasz wrócił jeszcze silniejszy i okrutniejszy niż przedtem. Bracia Zofki twierdzą, że odnaleźli skarb Maramy. Siostra zdradza brata, którego Ostasz więzi i torturuje. Dobek umiera i zabiera drogę do skarbca ze sobą. Tymczasem Hadwiga próbuje obudzić w Jeno uczucia do niej. Młody chłopak musi wybierać między duchowieństwem a miłością do dziewczyny, której nie chce do siebie dopuścić. A w tle wielki królewski spisek......

He is a French writer whose adventure novels made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. He was also a playwright and journalist. Having hired several assistants, he writes novels for newspapers with a sequel – adventure, pseudo-historical in nature, which both readers and publishers are happy to buy. Among these works are 5 famous historical multibooks such as: „The Count Of Monte Cristo”, „The Three Musketeers”, „Twenty Years After”, „The Black Tulip...

Dans ce roman Dumas réussit là à développer franchement les relations humaines et le thème de la trahison pour aborder regrets, détermination et autres hantises de l’esprit humain. À grands coups de trésors, de secrets et de machinations, il nous conduit au gré des soubresauts du destin d’Edmond Dantès! La magie et la dissimulation, la tromperie, l’art du déguisement et les faux-semblants, et... la vengeance. Est-elle juste et facile à vivre une fois accomplie?...

La «Dame de Monsoreau» est la suite à «La Reine Margot». C’est la fin du XVI siècle. Nous avons la possibilité de déguster la vie des rois et reines des siècles précédents, la vie ces gentilshommes célébrés par leur bravoure. L’histoire d’amour, bien qu’agréable à suivre, est sans grande originalité, mais elle est soutenue par une intrigue historique particulièrement réussie et passionnante. En meme temps nous côtoyons le règne du roi Henri III, sa vie, sa cour, ses faibles...

«L’histoire que nous avons lu, c’est Nodier qui me l’a racontée.” Charles Nodier, quand il sentait sa fin, a raconté cette histoire à Dumas et il la publie. Cette histoire est très travaillée et est truffée de références. Ce récit est plein de contes fantastiques et tableaux effrayantes de cette période historique où la folie et le réel parviennent à se confondre.

Anyone old enough to have friends they haven’t seen for many years knows how difficult it can be to get everyone together again. And when you do, it’s never quite the same. That’s the theme of „Twenty Years After” (1845), Alexandre Dumas’s sequel to „The Three Musketeers” that is a supreme creation of suspense and heroic adventure. This story follows events in France during La Fronde, during the childhood reign of Louis XIV, and in England near the end of the English Civil ...

The d’Artagnan Romances are a set of three novels by Alexandre Dumas telling the story of the musketeer d’Artagnan from his humble beginnings in Gascony to his death as a marshal of France in the Siege of Maastricht in 1673. It is May 1660 and the fate of nations is at stake. Mazarin plots, Louis XIV is in love, and Raoul de Bragelonne, son of Athos, is intent on serving France and winning the heart of Louise de la Valliere. D’Artagnan, meanwhile, is perplexed by a mysterio...

After „The Three Musketeers” and „Twenty Years After” the adventurous story of Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D’Artagnan continues! 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”. Can it be true that the King is in love with the Duchess d’Orleans? Or has his eye been caught by the sweet and gentle Louise de la Valliere? No one is more anxious to know the answer than Raoul, son o...

Set in Paris during the French Revolution, „The Mesmerist’s Victim” tells the story of two star-crossed lovers whose romance blooms at an extremely inopportune moment in European history. Will they be able to find happiness together, or will they be swallowed up in the tumult of radical political and social change? „The Mesmerist’s Victim” is the second in Dumas’ fictional series on the French Revolution. The story continues the tale where „Memoirs of a Physician” left off....

«Le Vicomte de Bragelonne» est le dernier volume de la trilogie des trois mousquetaires. Véritablement c’est un des meilleurs, le plus vibrants et le plus émouvants romans de Dumas. L’ atmosphère est plus sombre que dans le premier volume de la série. Les amis ne sont pas dans le même camp, els mettent des bâtons dans les roues l’un l’autre. Mais, aucun des personnages n’est vraiment bon, aucun n’est totalement mauvais. Chacun lutte pour ses ambitions, et essaie de placer s...

Le roman «Le chevalier de maison rouge» fait partie d’une série des romans d’Aleksandre Dumas de la Révolution française. L’histoire, aventures, beaux ou mauvais sentiments, nobles hommes ou immondes humains nous entraînent dans la France de la terreur. La description d’une terrible époque, quand Louis XVI a été guillotiné, Le Tribunal révolutionnaire institué et Marie-Antoinette, enfermée au temple, attend son procès. Et enfin le mystérieux Chevalier de Maison-Rouge, qui a...

Un exellent roman où se mêlent l’aventure et l’amour. Il nous plonge dans l’époque de la guerre entre les princes héritiers de la couronne de France après la mort de Louis XIV. Raoul d’Harmental est un jeune homme qui va faire partie d’une conspiration dans laquelle il devra enlever le régent Philippe d’Orléans. Utilisant un capitaine un peu particulier Roquefinette, d’Harmental se rendra vite compte que comploter contre le pouvoir n’est pas sans difficulté... surtout lorsq...

«Le Capitaine Paul» est un des premiers livres d’Alexandre Dumas, qui nous montre, que l’auteur est un grand écrivain et même à ses débuts. On peut voir son talent avec ses intrigues et sa passion de l’aventure. Cette fois-ci, il raconte de l’abordage, du prisonnier Lusignan et du capitaine de bateau Paul, qui écoute sa histoire. Il découvre après plusieurs années la vérité de ses parents...

This swashbuckling yarn is the continuation of the story in „Memoirs of a physician,” „The Queen’s necklace,” and „Six Years Later”. „The Countess of Charny or, The Execution of King Louis XVI” is the seventh in Dumas’ series on the retelling of the French Revolution. Known as one of the important early figures in the burgeoning genre of historical fiction, Alexandre Dumas spent much of his life chronicling the social and political unrest that utterly transformed France – a...

„The Royal Life Guard – A Historical Romance of the Suppression of the French Monarchy” is a historical romance of the suppression of the French monarchy. France had been changed to a limited monarchy from an absolute one, and King Louis XVI had solemnly sworn to defend the new Constitution. But it had been remarked by shrewd observers that he had not attended the Te Deum at the Paris Cathedral, with the members of the National Assembly: that is, he would tell a lie but not...

Alexandre Dumas’s 1846 novel, „Captain Paul” is based on life of John Paul Jones, a captain in the American Navy during the revolutionary war. This epic adventure is written in best traditions of Duma’s work featuring numerous desperate battles, true love, brave heroes, devious villains, and intrigue. This tale of high adventure and daring-do is highly recommended for fans of Dumas’s work, and would make for a fantastic addition to any bookshelf! One of the most widely read...

„The Forty-Five Guardsmen”, by Alexandre Dumas (1894), the most celebrated of French romance writers, is in two volumes, and is the third of a series known as „The Valois Romances”. It basically deals with Diana de Meridor and her servant Remy who find a way to take revenge upon Duc d’Anjou for his heinous betrayal of Bussy d’Amboise. Historically it commences with the execution of Salcede and the arrival of the Forty-Five at Paris and deals with the Guise intrigues, the ca...

„The Three Musketeers” (French: „Les Trois Mousquetaires”) is a historical adventure novel written in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas. Set in 1625–1628 when France is under threat, it recounts the adventures of a young nobleman named d’Artagnan after he leaves home to travel to Paris, to join the Musketeers of the Guard. Although d’Artagnan is not able to join this elite corps immediately, he befriends the three most formidable musketeers of the age – the mysterious A...

This action-packed novel is a warning. Its main character, the young Frenchman Benedict Thurpin – the newly-minted d’Artagnan, daredevil, wit, Breter, warrior, painter, palmist, hunter, gallant gentleman, personification of the spirit of France – like a volunteer fighting Prussians and performing extraordinary feats.

In the center of the novel is the fate of Adjutant Bonaparte Roland de Montrevel, and already in connection with this story we are faced with the image of Napoleon himself. But this does not stop Dumas from paying him much attention in the novel. And if at the beginning of the novel Napoleon appears as a very young general of the period of the Egyptian campaign and subsequent events, then in the finale he already measures the crown after Marengo and his other brilliant vict...

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