Alexandre Dumas
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Language
English
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Edmond Dantes has a perfect life. He is engaged to a beautiful woman and has just been named captain of a ship. But when three jealous friends conspire to destroy him, Dantes is locked away for life in the infamous Chateau d'If. In prison, Dantes learns of an island where vast treasure is hidden. He plots a daring escape, then uses the treasure to transform himself into the Count of Monte Cristo. Equipped with power, wealth, and disguise, he seeks...
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Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
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Description
"A swashbuckling epic of chivalry, honor, and derring-do, it is set in France during the 1620s and richly populated with romantic heroes, unattainable heroines, kings, queens, cavaliers, and criminals in a whirl of adventure, espionage, conspiracy, murder, vengeance, love, scandal, and suspense. Dumas transforms major and minor historical figures into larger-than-life characters: the brave d'Artagnan, an impetuous young man in pursuit of glory; the...
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Series
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
A simple retelling of the four Musketeers' final adventure, during which they plot to replace King Louis XIV of France with the mysterious, masked prisoner in the Bastille believed to be Louis' falsely imprisoned twin brother and the true king.
Author
Pub. Date
1953
Physical Desc
543 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas's most famous and enduring novel, completed its serial publication in the summer of 1844, and by the time of its book publication at the end of that year readers were already demanding a sequel. They got it starting in January, 1845, when the first chapters of Twenty Years After began to appear-but it wasn't quite what they were expecting.
When Twenty Years After opens it is 1648: the Red Sphinx, Cardinal Richelieu,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Barnes & Noble Classics
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
xxix, 608 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Edmond Dantés, wrongly imprisoned, learns of a hoard of treasure on the island of Monte Cristo and becomes determined to escape and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Primera edici̤n.
Physical Desc
1138 pages ; 20 cm
Language
Español
Description
Edmond Dantes, encarcelado por un crimen que no ha cometido, es confinado en la sombr̕a fortaleza de If. All̕ se entera de un gran tesoro escondido en la isla de Montecristo y decide no s̤lo escapar, sino tambǐn desenterrar el tesoro y utilizarlo para planear la destrucci̤n de los tres hombres responsables de su encarcelamiento. La historia p̌ica de sufrimiento y retribuci̤n de Dumas, inspirada en un caso real de encarcelamiento injusto, fue...
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It is a time of both splendor and despair for the deeply divided French nation where the self-serving King Louis XIV enjoys the riches of the world while his people starve. Believing he is all-powerful, Louis fears no one -- except the one person who could bring an end to his absolute power: the man he condemned to wear an iron mask and be imprisoned for life. But when the king's selfish excesses go too far, retired Musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis...
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Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (69 pages) : chiefly color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
D'Artagnan would give anything to become a Musketeer. When the Queen's wellbeing is threatened by the Cardinal, D'Artagnan joins forces with his three friends to protect her.
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three loyal swordsmen and an eager recruit battle enormous odds in their attempt to defeat an evil royal advisor and a seductive envoy plotting to overthrow the King of France.
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Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
ix, 244 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In Paris with his parents to sell family heirlooms, fourteen-year-old Greg Rich suddenly finds himself four hundred years in the past, and is aided by boys who will one day be known as "The Three Musketeers."
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Series
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Abridged.
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
151 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of an adventure in seventeenth-century France, when young d'Artagnan initially quarrels with, then befriends, three musketeers and joins them in trying to outwit the enemies of the king and queen.
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Full frame ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Alexandre Dumas' famous Musketeers are near the end of their careers but become involved in foiling a plot to imprison King Louis XIV of France and put his twin brother on the throne.
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An innocent man, Edmond Dantes, is imprisoned for years on a godforsaken island while the friend who betrayed him takes Dantes ravishing fiancé for himself. Dantes eventually escapes, recovers a fortune in buried pirate treasure, transforms himself into the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo, and methodically goes about exacting his revenge.
18) Short stories
Author
Pub. Date
1927
Physical Desc
8 preliminary leaves, 1003 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
20) The iron mask
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Reinforced library bound ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"He wore a mask of dark, cold iron-- that a nation might not face the fiery crucible of civil war. Three decades earlier, the young swordsman d'Artagnan and the swashbuckling Three Musketeers were the most celebrated heroes in 17th-century France. But they have long since pursued their separate destinies-- and are suddenly astonished to find themselves on opposing sides in a titanic struggle for the throne of a burgeoning empire. And the pawn in this...