Alexandre Dumas - Libros y biografía

Der Held des Romans ist Hoffmann, ursprünglich eine reale Person, E.T.A. Hoffmann. In Mannheim, wo er sich niedergelassen hatte, verliebte sich Hoffmann unsterblich in Antonia, die Tochter des Kapellmeisters...

Le roman raconte les aventures d'un Gascon désargenté de 18 ans, d'Artagnan, monté à Paris faire carrière. Il se lie d'amitié avec Athos, Porthos et Aramis, mousquetaires du roi Louis XIII. Ces quatre...

"The Queen's Necklace" dramatizes an unsavory incident in the 1780s at the court of King Louis XVI of France involving the King's wife, Marie Antoinette. Her reputation was already tarnished by gossip...

The Regent's Daughter - Une Fille du Régent - is a historical novel by Alexandre Dumas, written in 1845, and later adapted as a "serio-comic" play in five acts. It has sometimes been subtitled as a sequel...

The d'Artagnan Romances are a set of three novels by Alexandre Dumas telling the story of the musketeer d'Artagnan from his humble beginnings in Gascony to his death as a marshal of France in the Siege...

Ascanio is a grand opera in five acts and seven tableaux by composer Camille Saint-Saëns. The opera's French libretto, by Louis Gallet, is based on the 1852 play Benvenuto Cellini by French playwright...

A historical romance set in the period of King Louis XV relating the trials and tribulations of the court and life in this time. A wonderfully written and interesting novel with a historical background.

This antiquarian book contains Alexandre Dumas's 1846 novel, "Captain Paul". A romantic romp of brave heroes, devious villains, desperate battles, and true love, this epic tale of high adventure and daring-do...

CELEBRATED CRIMES Vol I, Part 1: The Borgias There are dreadful -- perhaps scurrilous -- rumors about the Borgias of renaissance Italy, and here Dumas, author of such classics as THE THREE MUSKETEERS,...

Bristling with political plots, secret assignations, daring escapes, duels, surprising alliances and betrayals, Dumas orchestrates two plotlines to come together in a very scene-driven, absolutely over-the-top...

Alexandre Dumas's most famous tale - and possibly the most famous historical novel of all time - in a handsome hardcover volume. This swashbuckling epic of chivalry, honor, and derring-do, set in France...

'To have discovered the black tulip, to have seen it for a moment...then to lose it, to lose it forever!' Cornelius von Baerle, a respectable tulip-grower, lives only to cultivate the elusive black tulip...

In this seventh volume of his Celebrated Crimes, Dumas tells the three tales: of the brutal excesses of Ali Pacha; the tale of the Countess of Saint Geran;and of Murat, whose courage became a legend in...

On the 21st Frimaire of the year II. (11th of December, 1793), the diligence from Besancon to Strasbourg stopped at nine o'clock in the evening in the courtyard of the Hotel de la Poste, behind the cathedral....

'At this game, whoever does not kill is killed.' Twenty Years After (1845), the sequel to The Three Musketeers, is a supreme creation of suspense and heroic adventure. Two decades have passed since...

May 3ist, 1856, 2 The Wolf-L eader is to be associated in conception with the group of romances which Dumas wrote at Brussels between the years 1852 and 1854, tnat sto say, after his financial failure...

The popularity of Dumas Pere's historical novels of high adventure, including "The Three Musketeers", have made him one of the most widely read French authors.

A true sequel to "La Dame de Monsoreau." It concerns the revenge of Diane de Méridor upon the Duc d'Anjou for his base betrayal of Bussy d'Amboise. Historically it commences with the execution of Salcède...

The Hero of the People is set in the waning days of the French Revolution, a story of adventure and intrigue and even romance during a turbulent time in European history. Alexandre Dumas was a French...

A ventott’anni, la marchesa di Brinvilliers era nel pieno della sua bellezza: di piccola statura e di forme perfette; col viso tondo incantevolmente leggiadro; dai tratti tanto più armoniosi in quanto...

La Dame aux camélias a pour thème une histoire d'amour entre une courtisane atteinte de phtisie, Marguerite Gautier, et un jeune bourgeois, Armand Duval. La narration de cette histoire d'amour constitue...

Èlie-Petrovitch Pravdine, capitaine-lieutenant sur la frégate russe l'Espérance, a une passion exclusive pour la mer, son bateau et ses hommes. Il fait la connaissance d'une très belle femme, la princesse...

Les Trois Mousquetaires est un roman d'Alexandre Dumas, initialement publié en feuilleton dans le journal Le Siècle de mars à juillet 1844. Il a été édité en volume dès 1844 aux éditions Baudry et réédité...

1719. Louis XV est mineur et Philippe d'Orléans gouverne la France, c'est la Régence. Philippe d'Orléans a trois enfants qui le déçoivent et veut faire venir à Paris sa fille illégitime, Hélène de Chaverny....

The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is the third and last of the d'Artagnan Romances following The Three...

De sa plume incomparable, Alexandre Dumas nous fait vivre les aventures d'un Gascon désargenté : d'Artagnan, monté à Paris dans le but de faire carrière. Arrivé dans la capitale, il se lie d'amitié avec...

Dans une époque secouée par les guerres de religion, Marguerite de Valois épouse Henri de Navarre afin d'établir la paix entre protestants et catholiques. Le mariage de la sœur de Charles IX est l'occasion...

Dantès mène une enquête discrète, et vérifie tous les faits qu'avait déduits l'abbé Faria dans leur geôle. Dantès se fait alors passer auprès de Caderousse, pour un prêtre italien, l'abbé Busoni, qui...

Ce carnet témoigne de la passion qu’Alexandre Dumas a vouée toute sa vie aux animaux. Enfant, il a reçu l’éducation d’un jeune chasseur et d’un amoureux de la nature. Sa dilection pour la vie animale...

Un’opera giovanile dell’autore del Conte di Montecristo che anticipa le pagine migliori del romanziere maturo (il racconto della congiura dei Pazzi, il ritratto dell’equivoco Lorenzino, la scena dell’omicidio...