Twenty Years After - Couverture souple

Dumas, Alexandre

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1604592966 ISBN 13 : 9781604592962

Editeur : SMK Books, 2009

Synopsis

Book by Dumas Alexandre

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Alexandre Dumas (1802 – 1870) demonstrated his propensity for literature early on, despite the lack of education and wealth he received as a result of his father's early death when Dumas was four. Dumas had his first play, Henry III and His Courts, produced in 1829 and was immediately met with widespread acclaim. Following the end of press censorship in France, Dumas began first writing novels, eventually founding a production studio, allowing him to publish hundreds of stories penned by a staff of writers under his guidance. Although he was married in 1840, he was said to have had around forty affairs, including one with the highest paid American actress at the time, Adah Isaacs Menken. During the election of Napoléon Bonaparte, he had to leave France and lived in Belgium, Russia and Italy before returning to Paris thirteen years later and lived there until his death in 1870. Dumas rarely addressed his African ancestry but when insulted because of it, famously replied,

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Twenty Years After is the exciting sequel to The Three Musketeers. The novel follows events in France, during the childhood reign of Louis XIV, and in England near the end of the English Civil War. Oliver Cromwell seeks to execute King Charles I and it is up to our heroes to come out of retirement and battle both age and evil. A rousing tale of derring-do.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: SMK Books
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1604592966
• ISBN 13: 9781604592962
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 636