Alexandre Dumas eBooks
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Ten Years Later. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Alexandre Dumas - Ionlineshopping.Com, 2019 -
The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later is the last of the d'Artagnan Romances, which is usually split into three or four volumes. The book at hand is the second volume of the four volume series. Louis XIV is well past the age where he should rule, but the ailing Cardinal Mazarin refuses to relinquish the reins of power. Meanwhile, Charles II, a king without a country, travels Europe seeking aid from his fellow monarchs. Athos still resides at La Fère while his son, Raoul de Bragelonne, has entered into the service in the household of M. le Prince. As for Raoul, he has his eyes on an entirely different object than his father — his childhood companion, Louise de la Valliere, with whom he is hopelessly in love. Porthos, now a baron, is off on some mysterious mission along with Aramis, who is now the Bishop of Vannes.
The Black Tulip. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Alexandre Dumas - Ionlineshopping.Com, 2019 -
The Black Tulip is a historical novel written by Alexandre Dumas, père. The story begins with a historical event — the 1672 lynching of the Dutch Grand Pensionary (roughly equivalent to a modern Prime Minister) Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis, by a wild mob of their own countrymen — considered by many as one of the most painful episodes in Dutch history, described by Dumas with a dramatic intensity. The main plot line, involving fictional characters, takes place in the following 18 months; only gradually does the reader understand its connection with the killing of the de Witt brothers. The city of Haarlem, Netherlands, has set a prize of ƒ100,000 to the person who can grow a black tulip, sparking competition between the country's best gardeners to win the money, honour and fame. Only the city's oldest citizens remember the Tulip Mania 30 years earlier, and the citizens throw themselves into the competition. The young and bourgeois Cornelius van Baerle has almost succeeded but is suddenly thrown into the Loevestein prison. There he meets the prison guard's beautiful daughter Rosa, who will be his comfort and help, and eventually become his rescuer. The novel was originally published in three volumes in 1850 as La Tulipe Noire by Baudry (Paris).
La San-Felice, Tome 07, Emma Lyonna, tome 3. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Alexandre Dumas - Ionlineshopping.Com, 2018 -
Septembre 1798. Revenant d’Aboukir où la flotte britannique a vaincu Bonaparte, l’Amiral Nelson est reçu en triomphateur à la cour de Naples. Garat, ambassadeur de la République, fait irruption dans cette manifestation d’hostilité anti-française et promet la guerre au Royaume de Naples. Trop vite cependant : le soir même, Salvato Palmieri, agent envoyé de Rome par le général Championnet pour informer Garat de la situation des Français et l’inviter à gagner du temps, est attaqué par les sbires de la reine Marie-Caroline de Naples. Laissé pour mort, il est recueilli par Luisa San Felice, jeune Napolitaine épouse du chevalier San Felice, vieil homme de lumières et bibliothécaire à la cour. Confié par le sort à ses soins, Salvato s’éprend de Luisa, et réciproquement. Marie-Caroline convainc le roi Ferdinand de la nécessité d’entrer sans retard en guerre contre les Français maîtres de Rome, en faisant valoir l’appui des Anglais que l’irrésistible Lady Hamilton a pu obtenir de Nelson. C’est bientôt chose faite...