Features two stories written in the 1830s: "The Tower" - a riotously inaccurate retelling of a notorious royal scandal from fourteenth-century France; and "Ruy Blas" - named after its low-born hero, forced to masquerade as an aristocrat as part of his disgraced master's revenge against the Queen.
Features two stories written in the 1830s: "The Tower" - a riotously inaccurate retelling of a notorious royal scandal from fourteenth-century France;...
Spero, the son of Monte-Cristo, was peacefully sleeping in another room, while, gathered around the table in the dining-room of Fanfaro's house, were Monte-Cristo, Miss Clary, Madame Caraman, Coucou, and Albert de Morcerf, ready to listen to the story of Fanfaro's adventures, which, as narrated at the close of the preceding volume, he was about to begin. The following is Fanfaro's narrative: It was about the middle of December, 1813, that a solitary horseman was pursuing the road which leads through the Black Forest from Breisach to Freiburg. The rider was a man in the prime of life. He wore...
Spero, the son of Monte-Cristo, was peacefully sleeping in another room, while, gathered around the table in the dining-room of Fanfaro's house, were ...
Spero, the son of Monte-Cristo, was peacefully sleeping in another room, while, gathered around the table in the dining-room of Fanfaro's house, were Monte-Cristo, Miss Clary, Madame Caraman, Coucou, and Albert de Morcerf, ready to listen to the story of Fanfaro's adventures, which, as narrated at the close of the preceding volume, he was about to begin. The following is Fanfaro's narrative: It was about the middle of December, 1813, that a solitary horseman was pursuing the road which leads through the Black Forest from Breisach to Freiburg. The rider was a man in the prime of life. He wore...
Spero, the son of Monte-Cristo, was peacefully sleeping in another room, while, gathered around the table in the dining-room of Fanfaro's house, were ...
The Three Musketeers is set in seventeenth century France and is the story of a young man, d'Artagnan, who leaves home to join the Musketeers of the Guard. He becomes friends with Athos, Porthos, and Aramis who become inseparable and live by the motto "all for one, one for all." The story continued in Twenty Years After, The Vicomte of Bragelonne, Ten Years Later, Louise de La Valliere and The Man in the Iron Mask. This is a must have for any d'Artagnan fan.
The Three Musketeers is set in seventeenth century France and is the story of a young man, d'Artagnan, who leaves home to join the Musketeers of the G...
The Three Musketeers is set in seventeenth century France and is the story of a young man, d'Artagnan, who leaves home to join the Musketeers of the Guard. He becomes friends with Athos, Porthos, and Aramis who become inseparable and live by the motto "all for one, one for all." The story continued in Twenty Years After, The Vicomte of Bragelonne, Ten Years Later, Louise de La Valliere and The Man in the Iron Mask. This is a must have for any d'Artagnan fan.
The Three Musketeers is set in seventeenth century France and is the story of a young man, d'Artagnan, who leaves home to join the Musketeers of the G...
The Journal of Madame Giovanni is the intriguing story of a young and beautiful French woman who in the 1850s, when women were still regarded as merely household decorations, travelled to little known parts of the world and recorded the exoticisms lying beyond the rim of most people's experience.
Jeanne and her husband, a Venetian merchant and adventurer, visited New Zealand, then a curious conglomeration of ruling aristocrats, exiled prisoners, and natives with definite leanings toward a diet of human flesh. During her stay in this land of strange customs and...
The Journal of Madame Giovanni is the intriguing story of a young and beautiful French woman who in the 1850s, when women were still rega...
The Wolf Leader by Alexandre Dumas The Wolf Leader is set around 1780 in Dumas' native town of Villers-Cotterets, and is supposedly based on a local folk-tale Dumas heard as a child. The story concerns Thibault, a shoe-maker, who is beaten by the gamekeeper of the Lord of Vez for interfering with the lord's hunting. Afterwards he encounters a huge wolf, walking on its hind legs like a man, who offers him vengeance; Thibault may wish harm on any person in return for one of his own hairs for each wish. To seal the agreement, the two exchange rings. As a result of this bargain he also finds...
The Wolf Leader by Alexandre Dumas The Wolf Leader is set around 1780 in Dumas' native town of Villers-Cotterets, and is supposedly based on a local f...
Una hermosa novela historica en donde un joven se encuentra con el comienzo de la Revolucion francesa y sus pares furiosos por la hambruna y pobreza que los acecha. Junto a ellos vive la Toma de la Bastilla, su gran significado simbolico y sus tragedias. Una parte de la historia se basa en un resumen sobre las uniones de la aristocracia, parte que en un punto se conecta con la vida de Angel."
Una hermosa novela historica en donde un joven se encuentra con el comienzo de la Revolucion francesa y sus pares furiosos por la hambruna y pobreza q...
