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The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later is the third and last of the d'Artagnan Romances, following The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After.In March 1844 the French magazine Le Siècle, printed the first installment of a story by Alexandre Dumas. It was based, Dumas claimed, on some manuscripts he had found a year earlier in the Bibliotheque Nationale while researching a history he planned to write on Louis XIV. The book at hand is the second volume of the third serial. Louis XIV is well past the age where he should rule, but the ailing Cardinal Mazarin refuses to relinquish the reins of power. Meanwhile, Charles II, a king without a country, travels Europe seeking aid from his fellow monarchs. Athos still resides at La Fère while his son, Raoul de Bragelonne, has entered into the service in the household of M. le Prince. As for Raoul, he has his eyes on an entirely different object than his father -- his childhood companion, Louise de la Valliere, with whom he is hopelessly in love. Porthos, now a baron, is off on some mysterious mission along with Aramis, who is now the Bishop of Vannes. (Jacketless library hardcover.)

The implacable Lord Ruthven returns in a new, horror-filled story where the deadliest vampire of all comes face-to-face with an even more fearsome enemy-a female Ghoul of great necromantic powers. Both Ruthven and the Ghoul covet the same humans. The shadow-filled castles of Europe become the stage for the ultimate confrontation between Vampire and Ghoul-and those who dare defy them!The character of the Byronesque vampire Lord Ruthven was first created in 1816 by John William Polidori on the same night that Mary Shelley created Frankenstein. This volume includes an 1851 sequel presented here in its original form by the famous author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte-CristoThe book also includes an all-new story in which Dumas himself meets Ruthven in 1850s Paris, by renowned playwright and translator Frank J. Morlock.

Featuring the full text of Dumas' 'The History of a Nutcracker' - the story that inspired the classic ballet - this book features hundreds of vintage drawings from the 19th century.

In The Three Musketeers, d'Artagnan goes to Paris with the ambition to become a musketeer - a King's Guard. He must convince the three musketeers to let him join them and help them to stop a plot against the Queen. TreeTops Classics are adapted and abridged versions of classic stories to enrich and extend children's reading experiences.

Originally published in 1920, this volume contains a selection of seven chapters from Histoire de mes betes by Alexandre Dumas. All of the selected chapters are related to one of Dumas' dogs, a Scottish Pointer named Pritchard. The text is presented in French with a short editorial introduction in English.

Twenty Years After (1845), the sequel to The Three Musketeers, is a supreme creation of suspense and heroic adventure.Two decades have passed since the musketeers triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady. Time has weakened their resolve, and dispersed their loyalties. But treasons and strategems still cry out for justice: civil war endangers the throne of France, while in England Cromwell threatens to send Charles I to the scaffold. Dumas brings his immortal quartet out of retirement to cross swords with time, the malevolence of men, and the forces of history. But their greatest test is a titanic strugglewith the son of Milady, who wears the face of Evil.In his Introduction to this edition David Coward sets both the author and his exciting tale in their historical and cultural contexts.

One of France's best-selling writers at the time of the novel's composition, Dumas here combines what he considered to be life's essentials - `l'action et l'amour'. This historical romance is the climax of his epic of chivalry and valour that began with The Three Musketeers, and it is here that Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and their friend d'Artagnan, once invincible, meet their destinies.This edition provides background information and notes crucial to an understanding of the legend and the novel's setting.

D'Artaganan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis reunite to fight the forces of evil. They need to face the vengeful Mordaunt, the son of Milady, as well as countering the machinations of the sinister Cardinal Mazarin.