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alexandre duMas
1802 – 1870, French
The Black Tulip
Translated with an Introduction and Notes
by Robin Buss
Dumas’s last major historical novel is a
tale of political intrigue, romantic love,
jealousy, and obsession, interweaving
historical events surrounding the brutal
murders of two Dutch statesmen in 1672
with the phenomenon of tulipomania that
gripped seventeenth-century Holland.
288 pp. 978-0-14-044892-4 $13.00
The Count of Monte Cristo
Translated with an Introduction and Notes
by Robin Buss
This is the quintessential novel of
revenge, complete with a mysterious and
implacable hero who will stop at nothing
to punish the men who betrayed him.
1,136 pp. 978-0-14-044926-6 $15.00
The Man in the Iron Mask
Translated by Joachim Neugroschel with an
Introduction by Francine du Plessix Gray
The celebrated conclusion of Dumas’s
cycle of the Musketeers concerns a
mysterious masked prisoner whose fate is
entangled with a corrupt king.
448 pp. 978-0-14-043924-3 $16.00
The Three Musketeers
Translated with an Introduction by
Richard Pevear
Cover by Tom Gauld
This bracing translation of this
swashbuckling epic features a spectacular
illustrated cover by Tom Gauld.
736 pp. 978-0-14-310500-8 $16.00
Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
“a heady mix of intrigue, action, and
laughing-in-the-face-of-death badinage (all
superbly rendered in this translation).”
—the new y o r k t i m e s b o o k review
The Three Musketeers
Translated with an Introduction by
Lord Sudley
Based on historic fact, this is the stirring,
romantic story of d’Artagnan, Athos,
Porthos, and Aramis, and their fight to
preserve the honor of their Queen.
720 pp. 978-0-14-044025-6 $14.00
alexandre duMas
Alexandre Dumas was born in 1802 at Villers-Cotterêts. His father, the
illegitimate son of a marquis, was a general in the Revolutionary armies, but
died when Dumas was only four. Brought up in straitened circumstances and
receiving very little education, he nevertheless entered the household of the future
king, Louis-Phillipe, and began reading voraciously. Later he entered the cénacle
of Charles Nodier and began to write. In 1829 he embarked on twenty years of
successful playwriting, and in 1839 he turned his attention to writing historical
novels, the most successful of which were The Count of Monte Cristo (1844–5)
and The Three Musketeers (1844). In addition to his many novels, Dumas wrote
travel books, children’s stories, and his Mémoires, which describe most amusingly
his early life, his entry into Parisian literary circles, and the 1830 Revolution. He
died in 1870.
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