The Man in the Iron Mask - Couverture souple

Dumas, Alexandre

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0192827529 ISBN 13 : 9780192827524

Editeur : Oxford Paperbacks, 1991

Synopsis

One of France's best-selling writers at the time of the novel's composition, Dumas here combines what he considered to be life's essentials - `l'action et l'amour'. This historical romance is the climax of his epic of chivalry and valour that began with The Three Musketeers , and it is here that Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and their friend d'Artagnan, once invincible, meet their destinies. This edition provides background information and notes crucial to an understanding of the legend and the novel's setting. This book is intended for students and teachers of French literature, general readers, cinema enthusiasts.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Alexandre Dumas was born July 24, 1802, at Villiers-Cotterets, France, the son of Napoleon's famous mulatto general, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, who eventually fell from favor and died impoverished when his son was only four. Alexandre Dumas began writing at an early age and saw his first success in a play he wrote entitled Henri III et sa Cour (1829). A prolific author who also had to battle racism throughout his life, Dumas was politically active, taking part in the Revolution of 1830 and later working for the  cause of Italian unification. Among his most famous historical novels, which he often wrote with collaborators (primarily Auguste Maquet) and which were typically serialized in the press, are The Three Musketeers (1844), The Count of Monte Cristo (1844-45), and The Man in the Iron Mask (1848-50). Dumas made and lost several fortunes, and died penniless on December 5, 1870.

Présentation de l'éditeur

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 Musketeers and Twenty Years After. It appeared first in serial form between 1847 and 1850.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford Paperbacks
• Date d'édition: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0192827529
• ISBN 13: 9780192827524
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 654
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible