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Being the Adventures of Count Sainte-hermine in the Age of Napoleon
by Alexandre Dumas
Selected as a Top Ten Book of the Year by The Washington Post: the newly discovered last novel by the author of The Three Musketeers.
Rousing, big, spirited, its action sweeping across oceans and continents, its hero gloriously indomitable, the last novel of Alexandre Dumas—lost for 125 years in the archives of the National Library in Paris—completes the oeuvre that Dumas imagined at the outset of his literary career.
Indeed, the story of France from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century, as Dumas vibrantly retold it in his numerous enormously popular novels, has long been absent one vital, richly historical era: the Age of Napoleon. But no longer. Now, dynamically, in a tale of family honor and undying vengeance, of high adventure and heroic derring-do, The Last Cavalier fills that gap.
"A hit from the vaults: Dumas pere's final work a grand tale of adventure. A big book, and a pleasure for anyone who thrills at the likes of D'Artagnan and company." —Kirkus Reviews
"Dumas is a master of ripping yarns full of fearless heroes, poisonous ladies and swashbuckling adventurers." —The Guardian
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Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) is one of the most famous French writers of the nineteenth century, with celebrated books such as The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. Apparently, the almost-complete manuscript for Le Chevalier de Sainte-Hermine, his most recently published novel, was lost for 125 years but was discovered in the archives of the National Library in Paris in 2005.
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