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Tout le monde a lu, lit ou lira Les Trois Mousquetaires. À la fin du roman, les héros paraissent un peu fatigués, et on les comprend après tant de chevauchées et d'exploits. Mais Vingt ans après, ils reprennent vie et repartent vers les grandes aventures de la politique et du coeur avec autant de pétulance et d'enthousiasme romanesque. Les Trois Mousquetaires évoquait le siège de La Rochelle et l'assassinat de Buckingham. Vingt ans après, c'est la Fronde, ses folles duchesses, un cardinal de plus : Retz, Cromwell, l'exécution de Charles Ier. Beaucoup de sang, c'est la loi du genre, des intrigues de cour et d'alcôve, mais aussi un humour auquel on ne résiste pas, une couleur digne de Hugo ou de Verdi, le plus beau mariage qu'ait réussi l'histoire romantique entre la vérité et la légende.

Paru en 1844-1846, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo connut un succès qui ne s'est jamais démenti. Des geôles du château d'If aux îles de la Méditerranée, des catacombes de Rome aux fastes du monde parisien, le destin d'Edmond Dantès possède la force des grands mythes. Romancier de l'histoire, conteur éblouissant, l'auteur des Trois Mousquetaires et de La Reine Margot se révéle aussi un observateur des m?urs de son temps et un maître inégalé du suspense.

Holland, summer 1672. Cornelis De Witt is the victim of changes in the political climate, and not that much later he and his brother Johan are the victims of a mob that satisfies its lust for blood on them. Just before they are lynched Cornelis De Witt sends his servant to his godson Cornelius Van Baerle, a gentle scholar with a passion for tulips, to bring him a note urging him to burn a bundle of letters De Witt has left at Van Baerle''s place some time ago, burn them without reading. But the distracted Van Baerle forgets both the note and the letters. He''s mostly concentrated on his tulips, on his attempts to breed new kinds, and mostly on the race towards being the first to grow a black tulip. And he might have one next spring! His neighbour, the less successful tulip-gardener Isaac Boxtel, suspects Van Baerle will be winning the reward for being the first to grow a black tulip, and enviously reports in an anonymous letter that he saw Van Baerle receive a bundle of papers from the disfavoured De Witt. The police indeed finds the incriminating letters, and Van Baerle is condamned to death. He resigns himself in the fact he won''t ever see his black tulip grow, but at the last moment Wilhelm of Orange pardons him and converts the sentence to life-long emprisonment. Van Baerle''s life is suddenly full of perspectives. Not only has he regained the chance to grown that black tulip, but the love of Rosa, the beautiful daughter of his jailer, brightens up the days he spend between his four walls. But Van Baerle''s enemy, Boxtel, who had hoped to gain the tulip-bulbs after his execution, hasn''t given up hope yet to grab those bulbs... The story starts with an overview of the final hours of the De Witt brothers, and then slowy shifts from a historical novel to the fictional history of Van Baerle, and his awakening - or should I say budding - love for Rosa. That makes certainly the first page discouraging, with one of the longest opening sentences I saw so far, and a series of historical facts. But perseverance will be rewarded with a very entertaining story. There''s not much action, everything happens in just one house and two prison-cells, yet this makes that no big descriptions are needed, we can for example follow that developing love like the two young lovers experience it: via just a few words every day, and th

D'où vient l'enchantement qui jamais ne faiblit dans ce roman immense, sans doute le plus émouvant de son auteur ? De la tendresse familière qui nous lie à ses héros, ces quatre vaillants hommes dont

Los seis relatos que se recogen en este volumen forman parte de la vasta obra que Dumas denominó Los mil y un fantasmas, de la cual Valdemar ha editado dos entregas: Las Tumbas de Saint-Denis y otros relatos de terror (num. 18 de esta coleccion) y La mujer del collar de terciopelo (num. 40). En ellos el lector encontrara los diversos registros del terror -siempre sazonados con las sabrosas anecdotas tipicas de Dumas-, desde el relato espeluznante de su propia vida que hace un muerto a sus comensales, hasta leyendas que recuerdan el ambiente sobrenatural del Tenorio, como la Historia de Don Bernardo de Zuñiga -incluida en Los gentilhombres de Sierra Morena-. Desde un fantasmal jardin que aterroriza las correrias cinegeticas del Conde de Foix, hasta una hermosa historia de amistad entre estudiantes que perdura mas alla de la tumba.

D''Artagnan wants to become a King''s musketeer. But before he can have the job he must meet many challenges and prove that he is a strong and brave fighter. Can he protect the Queen from the Cardinal''s evil plans? And will he be able to stop the beautiful Milady from murdering the Duke of Buckingham?

EDIZIONE REVISIONATA 10/02/2020.Il famosissimo romanzo di Alexandre Dumas racconta le vicende del giovane guascone DArtagnan, che decide di lasciare la sua famiglia per recarsi a Parigi e diventare moschettiere del re. Dopo un duello limpulsivo e coraggioso DArtagnan, abile spadaccino, stringe amicizia con i tre moschettieri del titolo: Athos, Portos e Aramis, al servizio del re Luigi XIII. Insieme combatteranno contro il perfido Cardinale Richelieu, le sue guardie e i suoi sostenitori, tra cui laffascinante e misteriosa Milady de Winter, al grido di Tutti per uno, uno per tutti!, per difendere lonore della regina Anna dAustria. Ai quattro moschettieri viene infatti affidata la delicata missione di recuperare in Inghilterra i gioielli che la regina ha regalato al suo amante, il duca di Buckingham, prima che Richelieu possa smascherare la sua infedelta. Con una prosa limpida e vivace, Alexandre Dumas conduce il lettore al tempo dellancien regime, tra duelli, inseguimenti, amori, fughe e tradimenti, creando dei personaggi straordinari e indimenticabili, sia nel bene che nel male. I tre moschettieri, pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1844, e uno dei piu celebri romanzi di cappa e spada e uno dei capolavori della letteratura francese dellOttocento, tuttora letto e amato, da cui sono state tratte innumerevoli versioni cinematografiche, televisive e teatrali.