Dumas: 1919 books

Un roman réaliste et romantique, suivi d’une anthologie sur les rapports entre roman et morale. Dans une édition spécialement conçue pour les lycéens. L’œuvre Dans le Paris demi-mondain du début du xixe siècle, où riches héritiers et femmes légères se côtoient, le jeune Armand...

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This powerful, eloquent play moves like a Greek tragedy to its inevitable conclusion. Dumas's drama is based on an actual event--the assassination of Duke Alexander of Medici in 1537 by his cousin, Lorenzo. Lorenzino lures his relative to a trap under the pretext of providing him with a woman. He gets...

The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the great adventure novels of all time. But the author, Alexandre Dumas, also adapted his novel into four riveting plays. Part Three: The Rise of Monte Cristo is set two decades after Edmond Dantès has been unjustly imprisoned in the Château d'If. Edmond has made...

Set in 1866 during the Austro-Prussian War, this exciting and masterfully-retold story is highly recommended for fans of the historical fiction, and constitutes a must-read for lovers of Dumas’s seminal work. 

This adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas tale tells the story of two brothers, born as Siamese twins, but separated not long after birth. They're raised by two different families, but are still able to "feel" the emotions of the other, even at a distance. On the island of Corsica they become entwined in...

"The War of Women" is an 1845 novel by Alexandre Dumas. Set during the Fronde, the novel tells the story of naive Gascon soldier, Baron des Canolles, who is torn between love for two women.

"All I ever wanted was a man who wouldn't ask me questions" Across the foyer of a crowded theatre, a handsome young man catches sight of the most expensive prostitute in town. When they meet, a mutual obsession is ignited - one that tears both their worlds apart. Set amidst the glittering...

In 1844-45, while Alexandre Dumas was working on his two classic novels, The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, he found time to write a play called Sylvandire. A young provincial, Roger Tancred d'Anguilem, arrives in Paris to fight a legal battle for a huge inheritance. His opponent is...

Dr. Ivans, unable to make a living in London, migrates with his two daughters to Australia, where he hopes to make his fortune; one of his girls, Melida, is forced to leave her suitor, Williams, behind. Arriving in Australia, Ivans finds himself unable to improve his fortune--he's too willing to help...

Adapted by Alexandre Dumas from a script by Auguste Maquet, BATHILDA tells the story of a woman who's raped by Marcel, and becomes his lover for a time. After she leaves him and moves to Paris, she meets Deworde, her deceased spouse's nephew, and plans to marry him. But Marcel pursues her, determined...

Set against the turbulent years of the Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas’s thrilling adventure story is one of the most widely read romantic novels of all time. In it the dashing young hero, Edmond Dantès, is betrayed by his enemies and thrown into a secret dungeon in the Chateau d’If — doomed...

Alexandre Dumas was one of the most widely read French authors in the world.

Bebilderte Ausgabe. Jeanne d'Arc, vermutlich am 6. Januar 1412 in Domrémy, Lothringen geboren; wurde am 30. Mai 1431 in Rouen auf dem Scheiterhaufen verbrannt. Im deutschen Sprachraum wurde die auch Johanna von Orléans oder die Jungfrau von Orléans genannt. Während des Hundertjährigen Krieges...