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The Three Musketeers: the Original 1844 Unabridged and Complete Edition
Experience the timeless adventure and intrigue of 17th century France in Alexandre Dumas’ epic tale of d’Artagnan and his three musketeer companions as they face treachery and court intrigue in their quest to defend the honor of their queen against powerful adversaries. A swashbuckling journey filled with daring swordsmen, political intrigue, and seductive spies.$0.00$0.99 -
The Count of Monte Cristo
Set against the turbulent years of the Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas’s thrilling adventure story is one of the most widely read romantic novels of all time. In it the dashing young hero, Edmond Dantès, is betrayed by his enemies and thrown into a secret dungeon in the Chateau d’If — doomed to spend his life in a dank prison cell. The story of his long, intolerable years in captivity, his miraculous escape, and his carefully wrought revenge creates a dramatic tale of mystery and intrigue and paints a vision of France — a dazzling, dueling, exuberant France — that has become immortal. Read more -
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The Borgias
This Work contains an active table of contents (HTML), which makes reading easier to make it more enjoyable. This novel comes from the famous crimes of Alexandre Dumas (1839-1840), one of the first collections of Dumas. Model of the Prince of Machiavelli (one of the readings of Dumas), Caesar Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI, extends his power over Rome. All means are good to ward off enemies and rivals. His crimes will have no limit, since he goes so far as to eliminate, by poison or weapons, the members of his own family: his elder brother Francesco, the husbands of his sister Lucretia and the mistresses who had the misfortune of to be attracted by his power and to share his bed. The poison he pours will eventually turn against him …Writing this bloody story, Dumas returns to the voluptuous and cruel Renaissance, the setting of his first theatrical triumph, Henry III and his court (1829).
