Dumas Alexandre: 1659 books

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...

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...

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...

Marguerite Gautier, vom Luxus verwöhnte Mätresse zahlungskräftiger Herren der Gesellschaft, lernt mit dem jungen Armand Duval die echte Liebe kennen. Um seinetwillen ist sie bereit, ihr unmoralisches Leben aufzugeben, um mit ihm ein einfaches Leben auf dem Lande zu beginnen. Wäre da nur nicht Armands Vater, der um die Familienehre fürchtet ... (Quelle: Wikipedia)

Derues and La Constantine" is based upon a series of historical records. An intimate knowledge of history is provided in these pages. The factors that led to major crimes in European history are discussed. The work gives an insight into the individual and collective workings of the people's minds.

One of the best-loved adventures of all time. When young D'Artagnan comes to Paris to seek his fortune, he is challenged to a duel with not one, but three of the king's Musketeers. But Athos, Porthos and Aramis become his trusted friends as he tries to prove himself worthy of becoming a fourth Musketeer.

About the end of the year 1639, a troop of horsemen arrived, towards midday, in a little village at the northern extremity of the province of Auvergne, from the direction of Paris. The country folk assembled at the noise, and found it to proceed from the provost of the mounted police and his men. The...

The Count of Monte Cristo, one of the greatest adventure novels of all time, has been converted by the author into a series of four plays. In PART TWO, Edmond Dantes has escaped from the dreaded prison island of d'If after 14 years of captivity. He seeks out the fabulous treasure of Monte Cristo described...

This classic novel has been abridged and adapted into 10 illustrated chapters. This format is ideal for bilingual education - people learning English as a second language (ESL),  English Language Learners (ELL), people of any age intending to improve reading skills and students for whom the original...

The beginning of the nineteenth century was a time of audacious enterprises and strange vicissitudes of fortune. Whilst Western Europe in turn submitted and struggled against a sub-lieutenant who made himself an emperor, who at his pleasure made kings and destroyed kingdoms, the ancient eastern part...

En sauvant la vie de Charles, Henri avait fait plus que sauver la vie d’un homme : il avait empêché trois royaumes de changer de souverains

La bella Edvige finisce, dopo una brutta avventura, in un castello circondato dal nulla. Una nobile famiglia moldava la ospita nel suo castello, in un soggiorno sospeso fra gentilezza e mistero. La sua avvenenza e la sua grazia non passano inosservate: i due fratelli Brankovan si innamorano perdutamente...