Alexandre Dumas

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The Count of Monte Cristo, Volume IV (of V) by Alexandre Dumas, Fiction, Classics, Action & Adventure, War & Military

Beschreibung

Edmond Dantes was a young sailor who, in 1815, returned to Marseilles with great expectations. But Dantes's enemies had him imprisoned in the dungeons of Château D'If. Doomed to rot in prison, Dantes met and befriended an Italian abbé who educates him and then, in death, helped him escape with a fabulous secret of a treasure on the island of Monte Cristo. Then, rich and posing as the Count of Monte Cristo, Dantes returned with a beautiful companion named Haidee. With information from the landlord Caderousse, Dantes plotted the ruin of the men who imprisoned him those many years. Danglars, his former shipmate. Fernand, who stole Mercedes from him. Villefort, who signed the order for his imprisonment. But there are complications in the Count's plans. Mercedes and Fernand have had a son named Albert, who comes into the sights of the Count of Monte Cristo's plans for revenge. Will Dantes kill the son of the woman he'd so loved?

Autor

French author and playwright Alexandre Dumas fils is best known for his romantic novel La Dame aux Camélias (The Lady of the Camellias), published in 1848. Giuseppe Verdi adapted it into his opera La traviata (The Fallen Woman), which debuted in 1853. Other notable works by Dumas fils include a number of stage and film adaptations, which are usually titled Camille in English-language adaptations. The playwright Alexandre Dumas père ("father"), the author of classic works including The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, was the father of Dumas fils (French for "son"). Dumas fils received the Légion d'honneur (Legion of Honour) in 1894 after being accepted into the Académie française (French Academy) in 1874. The illegitimate child of tailor Marie-Laure-Catherine Labay (1794-1868) and novelist Alexandre Dumas, Dumas was born in Paris, France. His father gave him official recognition in 1831 and made sure the young Dumas attended the Collège Bourbon and the Institution Goubaux for the greatest education available. The elder Dumas was then permitted by law to remove the child from his mother. The younger Dumas was driven to write about sad female characters by her anguish.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Aegypan
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 383g
• ISBN-13: 9781606643365
• ISBN-10: 1606643363
• Artikelnr.: 26069810