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Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas
Category: Classics
A prize of 100,000 florins awaits the gardener who can produce a black tulip, a rich reward that incites a deadly competition. Set in 17th-century Holland, this historical novel by the author of The Three Musketeers forms a timeless political allegory in which the rare flower represents the triumph of j ...Show more
Blood Royal - A Sequel to the Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas; Lawrence Ellsworth (Translator)
Category: Classics
The latest entry in this acclaimed series of new translations of the Musketeer novels, Blood Royal continues the adventures of the valiant d'Artagnan and his three loyal friends. The latest translation in Lawrence Ellsworth's acclaimed new series of Alexandre Dumas's greatest adventures is Blood Roy ...Show more
Children's Classics the Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (Original Author); Susan Hill (Adapted by); Carlo Molinari (Illustrator)
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Classic Adventures Ser.
D'Artagnan dreams of joining the Musketeers, the special guards to the King of France. But in Paris, he's drawn into a dangerous hunt for the Queen's missing royal jewel. D'Artagnan must journey to London and retrieve the diamond before the king of France notices it's gone-- and before the queen's enemi ...Show more
Count of Monte Cristo by ALEXANDRE DUMAS
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury. The story of Edmund Dantes, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, is told with consummate skill. The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of providence. In hi ...Show more
Count of Monte Cristo (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition) by Alexandre Dumas
Category: Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection
A beautiful new clothbound edition of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of the Ch teau d'If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of ...Show more
From Absinthe to Zest: An Alphabet for Food Lovers by Alexandre Dumas
Category: Food & Wine
As well as being the author of The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas was also an enthusiastic gourmand and expert cook. His Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine, published in 1873, is an encyclopaedic collection of ingredients, recipes and anecdotes, from Absinthe to Zest via cake, frogs? legs, oysters, Roquef ...Show more
La Reine Margot by Alexandre Dumas
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Dear sister!' said Charles IX, 'there is blood on your sleeve!' 'And what consequence is that, Sire,' said Marguerite, 'if I have a smile upon my lips?' Saint Bartholomew's Day 1572. Paris is awash with the blood of Huguenots slaughtered by order of Charles IX. Or perhaps of Catherine de Medicis, one o ...Show more
Man In The Iron Mask by ALEXANDRE DUMAS
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The Man in the Iron Mask is the final episode in the cycle of novels featuring Dumas' celebrated foursome of D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, who first appeared in The Three Musketeers. Some thirty-five years on, the bonds of comradeship are under strain as they end up on different sides in a powe ...Show more
Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
Category: Classics | Series: Step into Classics
Aramis bribes his way into the Bastille, where a man held prisoner for eight years unknowingly has the power to dethrone the King of France.
Manga Classics: The Count of Monte Christo by Crystal S. Chan (Adapted by); Alexandre Dumas; Nokman Poon (Artist); Crystal Chan (Artist)
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Manga Classics Ser.
On the very day of his wedding to the beautiful Mercedes, a young merchant sailor named Edmond Dantès is falsely imprisoned for life, laying to waste his plans of marriage and hard-earned fortune. Following several long years in prison he has managed to escape and reinvent himself as the mysterious Coun ...Show more
Nutcracker by Alexandre Dumas
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Pocket Editions Ser.
Revel in the magic of a Christmas tradition. The Nutcracker features the full text of Alexandre Dumas's "The History of a Nutcracker", the story that inspired the classic ballet. Lavishly illustrated with more than 100 vintage drawings from the nineteenth century, this beautifully designed book kindle ...Show more