Amaury is a romantic novel that deals with the subject of the jealousy in a Paris of years 1839-1840. Amaury the main character is completely in love with Madeleine and they want to get married. However, the disease installs between them and separates them drastically. This novel, previous to The Three Musketeers was forgotten more than a century and today deserves a place among the masterpieces of the sentimental novel.

Alexandre Dumas (24 July 1802 - 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas, pere, was a French writer. His works have been translated into nearly 100 languages, and he is one of the most widely read French authors. Many of his historical novels of high adventure were originally published as serials, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later. His novels have been adapted since the early twentieth century for nearly 200 films. Dumas' last novel, The Knight of Sainte-Hermine, unfinished at his death, was...