A young man named Edmond Dantès is wrongly convicted of treason and imprisoned on an island stronghold in "The Count of Monte Cristo," a classic adventure tale illustrated by Alexandre Dumas...
The lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis in 1672, the equivalent of the Dutch Prime Minister, opens The Black Tulip. Cornelius van Baerle, a horticulturist, enters a competition to culti..
The story takes place in France during the Fronde and the early reign of Louis XIV, as well as in England during the English Civil War and the years leading up to Oliver Cromwell s victory and the exe..
It may be argued that Alexandre Dumas, author of The Three Musketeers and numerous sequels, practically pioneered the action adventure novel. His tales are exciting accounts of daring feats, evil acts..
The historical fiction "Ten Years Later" by Alexandre Dumas is included in this volume.
This is the second part of the last d Artagnan Romance, which was serialised between 1847 and 1850. It follows ..
Alexandre Dumas, with major assistance from other writers, produced 18 pieces on some of Europe s most infamous murders between 1839 and 1841. These featured some of the hot, trending cases of Dumas d..
For several years, a man who has been kept in isolation suffers in a prison cell. He is under strict orders to avoid communication with outsiders at all costs. Iron masks are frequently used to concea..
Inspired by the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, an incident which took place in the 1780s at the court of Louis XVI involving a precious diamond necklace and Marie Antoinette, The Queen s Necklace tel..
The Three Musketeers, novel by Alexandre Dumas père, published in French as Les Trois Mousquetaires in 1844. SUMMARY: A historical romance, it relates the adventures of four fictional swashbuckling he..
Supposedly inspired by a folktale Dumas heard as a boy, Le Meneur de Loups is set in Villers-Cotterêts, Dumas hometown, in the year 1780. Thibault, a cobbler, is thrashed by the Lord of Vez s gamekeep..