Ten Years Later: The Vicomte of Bragelonne (Forgotten Books) - Softcover

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 1606801783 ISBN 13: 9781606801789

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2008

Synopsis

The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, pere. It is the third and last of the d'Artagnan Romances following The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After. It appeared first in serial form between 1847 and 1850. In the English translations the 268 chapters of this large volume are usually subdivided into three, but sometimes four or even five individual books. In three-volume English editions, the three volumes are titled "The Vicomte de Bragelonne", "Louise de la Valliere", and "The Man in the Iron Mask." Each of these volumes is roughly the length of the original The Three Musketeers. In four-volume editions, the names of the volumes are kept, except that "Louise de la Valliere" and "The Man in the Iron Mask" are pushed down from second and third to third and fourth, with "Ten Years Later" becoming the second volume. There are usually no volume-specific names in five-volume editions. (Quote from wikipedia.org)

About the Author

Alexander Dumas (1802 - 1870)
Alexandre Dumas, pere (French for "father", akin to Senior in English), born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (July 24, 1802-December 5, 1870) was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne were serialized, and he also wrote plays and magazine articles and was a prolific correspondent.

Alexandre Dumas' paternal grandparents were Marquis Alexandre-Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie, a French nobleman and General commissaire in the Artillery in the colony of Saint Domingue (now Haiti), and Marie-Cesette Dumas, an Afro-Caribb

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Review:

alternately melodramatic, sentimental, humorous, wordly, and almost always absorbing (The Irish Times)

About the Author:

Alexandre Dumas (1802 – 1870) demonstrated his propensity for literature early on, despite the lack of education and wealth he received as a result of his father's early death when Dumas was four. Dumas had his first play, Henry III and His Courts, produced in 1829 and was immediately met with widespread acclaim. Following the end of press censorship in France, Dumas began first writing novels, eventually founding a production studio, allowing him to publish hundreds of stories penned by a staff of writers under his guidance. Although he was married in 1840, he was said to have had around forty affairs, including one with the highest paid American actress at the time, Adah Isaacs Menken. During the election of Napoléon Bonaparte, he had to leave France and lived in Belgium, Russia and Italy before returning to Paris thirteen years later and lived there until his death in 1870. Dumas rarely addressed his African ancestry but when insulted because of it, famously replied,

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1606801783
• ISBN 13: 9781606801789
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 822