Alexandre: 2468 books

It was on the first of October, 1791, that the new Legislative Assembly was to be inaugurated over France. King Louis XVI., captured with Queen Marie Antoinette and the royal family, while attempting to escape from the kingdom and join his brothers and the other princes abroad, was held in...

Edmond Dantes thinks life is grand until he is arrested and imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. Upon his ill-gotten freedom, and armed with the map to find a vast and endless treasure, Edmond embarks on an adventure to redeem his honor and seek vengeance for the long years he suffered locked...

Edmond Dantes thinks life is grand until he is arrested and imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. Upon his ill-gotten freedom, armed with the map to find a vast and endless treasure, Edmond embarks on an adventure to redeem his honor and seek vengeance for the long years he suffered locked away...

In the Musketeers’ final adventure, D’Artagnan remains in the service of the corrupt King Louis XIV after the Three Musketeers have retired and gone their separate ways. Meanwhile, a mysterious prisoner in an iron mask wastes away deep inside the Bastille. When the destinies of king and prisoner...

Del 'Ciclo dei moschettieri', questo è il romanzo centrale. Pubblicato a puntate sulla rivista 'Le Siècle' nel 1845, prende inizio naturalmente da vent'anni dopo la fine de 'I tre moschettieri' e mantiene lo stile brioso e la capacità di incollare il lettore alle pagine tipica del miglior Dumas....

Il romanzo racconta la travagliata storia d’amore di Armand Duval, giovane di buona famiglia, con Marguerite Gautier, bella e famosa mantenuta parigina. Il giovane si innamora di Marguerite scoprendo ben presto che l’amore di Marguerite è in vendita: il suo aspetto da gran dama è dato dai soldi...

Il giovane d'Artagnan va a Parigi in cerca di fortuna. Divenuto amico dei moschettieri Porthos, Athos e Aramis, entra con loro al servizio del re. I quattro devono combattere le trame del cardinale Richelieu e della perfida Milady de Winter. Salveranno l'onore della regina che imprudentemente aveva...

One of France's best-selling writers at the time of the novel's composition, Dumas here combines what he considered to be life's essentials - `l'action et l'amour'. This historical romance is the climax of his epic of chivalry and valour that began with The Three Musketeers, and it is here that Athos,...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: First serialized from January to August, 1845, Twenty Years After is the second book in The D’Artagnan Romances, and follows the gallant adventures of the musketeers, as they are once again...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: The Vicomte de Bragelonne opens an epic adventure which continues with Louise de La Valliere and reaches its climax in The Man in the Iron Mask. This new edition of the classic translation presents a...

This book is among the best-selling popular classics "bestseller". Here is an extract of this book : Since Aramis’s singular transformation into a confessor of the order, Baisemeaux was no longer the same man. Up to that period, the place which Aramis had held in the worthy governor’s...

This book is among the best-selling popular classics "bestseller". Here is an extract of this book : During all these long and noisy debates between the opposite ambitions of politics and love, one of our characters, perhaps the one least deserving of neglect, was, however, very much...

La storia di Dumas, un racconto d'amore e di spionaggio industriale, vede protagonista Cornelius Van Bearle che, pur appartenendo a una ricca famiglia de L'Aia, non vuole arricchirsi ancora di più, ma investe grosse somme di denaro nella sua mania per i tulipani alla ricerca di forme e colori sempre...