| The Last Cavalier: Being the Adventures of Count Sainte-Hermine in the Age of Napoleon Contributor(s): Dumas, Alexandre (Author), Schopp, Claude (Preface by), Yoder, Lauren (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1441702261 ISBN-13: 9781441702265 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $49.46 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: January 2010 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 2" H x 5.2" W x 5.8" (1.25 lbs) 28 pages |
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| Publisher Description: The discovery of Dumas's last, incomplete novel, lost and completely unknown to historians for more than a century, was a literary bombshell. The Last Cavalier is Dumas's swan song, a rousing adventure that completes his epic retelling of French history from the Renaissance (La Reine Margot) to his present day (The Count of Monte Cristo) by filling in that one vital, dramatic era that was missing: the Age of Napoleon. A tale of family honor and heroic derring-do, The Last Cavalier follows the fortunes of young Hector, Count de Sainte-Hermine, who has sworn an oath to avenge his Royalist family members' deaths by fighting against Napoleon. When he is defeated, he is sentenced to serve as a common soldier in Napoleon's imperial forces. Though he courts death fearlessly, Hector's daring deeds will change his destiny--and Napoleon's. It is rousing, big spirited, its action sweeping across oceans and continents, its hero gloriously indomitable. This newly discovered last novel of Alexandre Dumas, lost for 125 years in the archives of the National Library in Paris, completes the Dumas oeuvre. |
Contributor Bio(s): Dumas, Alexandre: - Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870), French novelist and playwright, was born the son of an innkeeper's daughter and one of Napoleon's generals. He moved to Paris in 1823 to make his fortune in the theater, and at twenty-eight he was one of the leading literary figures of his day. His complete works were eventually to fill over three hundred volumes, and his stories made him the best-known Frenchman of his age. He is best known for his ever-popular classic novels The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. Prebble, Simon: -Simon Prebble, a British-born performer, is a stage and television actor and veteran narrator of some three hundred audiobooks. As one of AudioFile's Golden Voices, he has received over twenty Earphones Awards and won the prestigious Audie in 2010. He lives in New York. |