Search Results for: “Alexandre Dumas”

Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis compelling biography, Alexandre Dumas, chronicles the extraordinary life of the prolific French author, detailing his adventurous spirit and...

A new translation by Richard Pevear Young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris to join the King's elite guards, but almost immediately finds he is duelling with some of the very men...

Author: Alexandre Dumas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 1080 This is a distinguised collectible edition of a classic adventure story. "The Count of Monte Cristo" is considered to be Alexandre...

Author: Alexandre DumasFormat: Hardback, 138mm x 204mm, 1115g, 1312 pagesPublished: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2012Beautiful new clothbound edition of Dumas's classic novel of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge Thrown...

The landmark novel that inspired Verdi's opera La Traviata, in a sparkling new translation "One of the greatest love stories of all time," according to Henry James,and the inspiration for...

Published for the first time in Penguin Classics, this is the conclusion of Dumas's celebrated Musketeers adventures In the Musketeers' final adventure, D'Artagnan remains in the service of the corrupt...

Louise de la Balliere is the middle section of The Vicomte de Bragelonne or, Ten Years After. Against a tender love story, Dumas continues the suspense which began with The...

The lost final novel by the master of the epic swashbuckling adventure stories: The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. The last cavalier is Count de Sainte-Hermine, Hector,...

New translation by Robin Buss, with chronology, further reading, explanatory notes. Set at the height of the \"tulipomania\" that gripped Holland in 17th century, this is the story of Cornelius...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Some moisture damageCondition remarks: dried coffee stain on block - does not extend internally.One of the most exhilarating adventure novels ever written, The Three Musketeers hurls...

'God's teeth!' Unfailingly exciting and a complete joy to read, this new translation of The Three Musketeers is published to coincide with the lavish BBC adaptation to be aired this...

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The Last Count of Monte Cristo is a bold retelling of Alexandre Dumas's classic tale of love, betrayal, revenge, and redemption. This speculative update pushes the narrative into a future...

Edition: 1st ed., 1st impr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: SignedA gripping courtroom drama and revenge thriller, A Prisoner of Birth chronicles the story of Danny Cartwright,...

Discover our collectable Puffin Clothbound Classic edition of The Tale of the Nutcracker. Puffin Clothbound Classics are stunning collectable hardback editions of some of the best-loved classics in the world...

Author: Various AuthorsFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 232mm, 736 pagesPublished: Union Square & Co., United States, 2015This anthology gathers 100 tales that share the winter theme of Hans Christian Andersen's classic....

Author: Georges DubyBinding: HardbackPublished: SKIRA, 1966Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: All plates intact. Unknown

Secondhand Literary Classics Bargain Book Box SP4140 Twenty classics and Australian titles in mixed editions: Patrick White’s Voss, Henry Kingsley’s Geoffry Hamlyn, We of the Never-Never, Castaneda’s Don Juan, du...

Vivid biographies of famous characters from the Ancient Greek world, in a revised edition of Ian Scott-Kilvert's seminal translation The Parallel Lives of Plutarch are cornerstones of Western literature, and...

Marcel Duchamp is a founding figure of 20th-century art and culture, the common source to which many contemporary movements trace their roots. His career has often been celebrated for its...

Author: Dumont D'Urville; Translated from the French and edited by Helen RosenmanBinding: HardbackPublished: Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition...

Louis-Antoine Comte de Bougainville (1729-1811) is best known for his circumnavigation of the globe from 1766 to 1769. throughout a long and distinguished life however, he participated in many of...

For fans of The White Lotus , Anthony Horowitz and Benjamin Stevenson, a tricksy murder mystery from the internationally bestselling author Greece, 1960. Rough weather at sea leaves a group...

Noam is a young man when the Flood wreaks havoc on the world, destroying the peaceful lakeside village he called home, and turning his whole life upside down. Destined to...

The book titled Memoirs by the author Alexandre Benois. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

One of the most important literary biographies of recent times, this is not only the story of one of the century's greatest writers, but the history of Russia itself. A...

Author: Alexandre Benois, Moura Budberg (trans.)binding: HardbackPublished: Chatto & Windus, 1964, 1stCondition: book: Very good, jacket: Wear and tear, page: Good, markings: No markingsThis volume continues the captivating narrative of...

A compelling narrative of the life of the greatest conqueror of all time- Alexander the Great. Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who led the Macedonian army to victory in Egypt,...

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The first catalogue raisonne of a leading artist of the Cubist movement. Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876-1918) was born in Eure, in the Haute-Normandie region of France. He was the brother of...

A new selection and translation of the best of de Maupassant's short stories Set in the Paris of society women, prostitutes and small-minded bourgeousie, and the isolated villages of rural...

Description: A portrait of the artist Marcel Duchamp, an influential and admired artist of the 20th century. Calvin Tomkins explores Duchamp's humour, his love affairs and originality, as well as noting...

Author: Hugo Vickers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 **The Times and Sunday Times Books of the Year 2020** 'This biography is truly wonderful - a masterclass in storytelling' Sunday...

Hasani's post-seventh-grade summer to-do list is pretty simple: get a bigger following for her makeup YouTube channel and figure out how to get her parents back together. What she does...

Daudet's fascinating notebook, revived and translated by Julian Barnes. Alphonse Daudet was a highly popular nineteenth-century French novelist, whose work radiated humour and good cheer. Few knew that for his...

Author: Thomas GirstFormat: Hardback, 143mm x 210mm, 480g, 224 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) has entered mainstream culture as one of the founding fathers of...

A fast-paced narrative about the world-famous libertine Giacomo Casanova, from celebrated biographer Leo Damrosch "Fully succeeds in communicating that 'vivid presentness,' that 'joyful eagerness' for life, which is what keeps...

Author: Edward Ryan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 424 This outstanding biography is a story of courage. It charts the career of a superbly brave cavalryman against the rise and...

Hume's masterpiece on human nature, attacking traditional religious thought One of the most significant works of Western philosophy, Hume's Treatise was published in 1739-40, before he was thirty years old....

Penguin Classics relaunch. Although written over four hundred years after Alexander's death, Arrian's account of the man and his achievements is the most reliable we have. Arrian's own experience as...

Long-awaited sequel to The Buddha, Geoff and Me, but also stands alone as an insightful novel of everyday city life Ed is stuck in a rut - his part-time 'career'...