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The Black Tulip
[english | 1850]Alexandre Dumas
Excerpts: [... States are traitors. I don't know anything about that! And you are a traitor yourself! I? Yes, you. Well, as to that, let us understand ...... to the person in question. What difference is there between the figure of the conqueror and that of the pirate? said the ancients. The difference ...... replied, in an offhand manner and the greatest men have sometimes fallen victims to such ...]
Genres: [adventure | fiction and literature] Downloads: 85
The Borgias
[english | 1840]Alexandre Dumas
Summary: [The Borgias by Alexandre Dumas. CELEBRATED CRIMES Vol I Part 1 The Borgias There are dreadful -- perhaps scurrilous -- rumors about the Borgias of renaissance Italy and here Dumas author of such classics as THE THREE MUSKETEERS in his Celebrated Crimes series dishes up the dirt in all its ugly glory. This book was not written for children. Dumas has minced no words in describing the violent ...]
Genres: [history] Downloads: 70
The Count Of Monte Cristo
[english | 1845]Alexandre Dumas
Summary: [revenge full storyall characters are memorable ones]
Genres: [adventure | fiction and literature | audiobook] Downloads: 469
The Man In The Iron Mask
[english | 1850]Alexandre Dumas
Excerpts: [... meal. Aramis saw that the young man was stretched upon his bed, his face half concealed by his arms. The arrival of a visitor did not caused any change ...... breast with a force of affection that seemed to increase with every day. Ah! he repeated, you are always welcome, dear friend but just now you ...... hit off to the life in some comedy or other. Porthos smiled. What are you ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 289
The Marquise De Ganges
[english | 1840]Alexandre Dumas
Excerpts: [... days you will have the answer. The unknown did as the sibyl bade her then the latter took from her hands the ball and the paper in which it was wrapped, ...... of the marquise, delineated in a style and manner still more characteristic of that period:- You will remember that she had a complexion smoother ...... for beauty, as a man, was equal to her own, as a woman. This favourite ...]
Genres: [non-fiction | history] Downloads: 211
The Three Musketeers
[english | 1844]Alexandre Dumas
Summary: [The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas pre. It recounts the adventures of a young man named dArtagnan after he leaves home to become a musketeer. DArtagnan is not one of the musketeers of the title those are his friends Athos Porthos and Aramisinseparable friends who live by the motto One for all and all for one.The story of dArtagnan is continued in Twenty ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | historical] Downloads: 214
The Vicomte Of Bragelonne
[english | 1847]Alexandre Dumas
Summary: [The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas pre. It is the third and last of the dArtagnan Romances following The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After. It appeared first in serial form between 1847 and 1850.The Vicomte of Bragelonne is the first volume of this work relating the events of 1660.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | historical] Downloads: 374
Twenty Years After
[english | 1845]Alexandre Dumas
Summary: [Lira dos Vinte Anos is a poetry anthology written by Brazilian Romantic author Alvares de Azevedo. Originally part of a project that would be written in partnership with Aureliano Lessa and Bernardo Guimaraes called As Tr^es Liras it was published in 1853. It is one of the few works whose publication was prepared by the own Alvares due to his premature death in April 25 1852. The book is divided ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | historical] Downloads: 225
Urbain Grandier
[english | 1840]Alexandre Dumas
Summary: [Urbain Grandier by Alexandre Dumas. Alexandre Dumas p ere French for father akin to Senior in English born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie 1802-1870 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 1845 The Three Musketeers 1844 and ...]
Genres: [non-fiction | history] Downloads: 85
Vaninka
[english | 1840]Alexandre Dumas
Summary: [Vaninka by Alexandre Dumas P Re. About the end of the reign of the Emperor Paul I--that is to say towards the middle of the first year of the nineteenth century--just as four o clock in the afternoon was sounding from the church of St. Peter and St. Paul whose gilded vane overlooks the ramparts of the fortress a crowd composed of all sorts and conditions of people.]
Genres: [non-fiction | history] Downloads: 321
Camille
[english | 1844]Alexandre Dumas Fils
Summary: [Camille by Desmond Davis. One of the world s most famous love stories comes to vibrant life in this lavish production filled with stunning scenery and a once in a lifetime cast Nicknamed Camille the beautiful Marguerite Greta Scacchi Brideshead Revisited sacrifices her honor to become a high society escort who only entertains the richest men in Paris. However the young and dashing Armand Duval ...]
Genres: [fiction | romance] Downloads: 224
The Hills Of Home
[english | 1956]Alfred Coppel
Summary: [Normality is a myth were all a little neurotic and the study of neurosis has been able to classify the general types of disturbance which are most common. And some types (providing the subject is not suffering so extreme a case as to have crossed the border into psychosis) can be not only useful but perhaps necessary for certain kinds of work....]
Genres: [science fiction | short story | audiobook] Downloads: 298
The Invader
[english | 1953]Alfred Coppel
Summary: [Magic--theres no such thing. But the crops were beginning to grow backwards]
Genres: [short story | science fiction | post 1930] Downloads: 108
The Peacemaker
[english | 1953]Alfred Coppel
Summary: [The legends of Jaq Merril are legion--but legends. Hark ye then to the true story of the pirate benefactor of Mankind!]
Genres: [short story | science fiction | post 1930] Downloads: 499
Turning Point
[english | 1953]Alfred Coppel
Summary: [Een keerpunt in de vaderlandse geschiedenis is a 2005 Dutch book by Amsterdam University professor Karel van Wolferen and NRC Handelsblad reporter Jan Sampiemon. Its secondary title is A manifesto to the Dutch people. Despite the fatherland in the title referring to the Netherlands the book is mostly about the changes in the foreign policies of the USA since the presidency of George W. Bush and ...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 258
Turnover Point
[english | 1953]Alfred Coppel
Summary: [Every era in history has had its Pop Ganlons. Along in years and not successful and not caring much anyway. A matter of living out their years following an obscure path to oblivion. It was that way in ancient Egypt just as it will be when the Solar System shrinks to our size. And once in a while such men are given an opportunity to contribute to the society that has forgotten them....]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 115
Born Again
[english | 1904]Alfred William Lawson
Summary: [Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese-Americans is a book by Ansel Adams containing photographs from his 1943-4 visit to the internment camp then named Manzanar War Relocation Center in Owens Valley Inyo County California. The book was published in 1944 by U.S. Camera in New York. In the summer of 1943 Adams was invited by his friend newly-appointed camp director Ralph Merritt to ...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction] Downloads: 148
A Prisoner In Fairyland
[english | 1913]Algernon Blackwood
Excerpts: [... on. His wife noticed the new enthusiasm in his manner, and was puzzled by it. Something was up, she divined. 'Do you think he'll raise your salary ...... their hands to him as the train hurried away, and the last thing he saw was the station lamp where he had lit the cigar that made three of them, himself included, ...... feet were on the cushions???disgracefully. They were talking ...]
Genres: [horror | fantasy] Downloads: 218
Jimbo
[english | 1909]Algernon Blackwood
Summary: [Call number of original: PZ3.B5683J.]
Genres: [fiction and literature | audiobook | fantasy] Downloads: 263