Robin Buss (1939-2006) was a writer and translator who worked for the Independent on Sunday and as television critic for the Times Educational Supplement. A prolific author, his body of work includes a number of popular classics, including The Three Musketeers and The Man in the Iron Mask.
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Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.Ībout the Author Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) was the son of Napoleon's famous general Dumas. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. This edition includes an introduction, explanatory notes and suggestions for further reading. Robin Buss's lively English translation is complete and unabridged, and remains faithful to the style of Dumas's original. Dumas' epic tale of suffering and retribution, inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, was a huge popular success when it was first serialized in the 1840s. Like many of his novels, it was expanded from plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter Auguste Maquet. It is one of the author's more popular works, along with The Three Musketeers. An edition of The Count of Monte Cristo (1990) The Count of Monte Cristo. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. The Count of Monte Cristo ( French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas ( pre) completed in 1844. etina (cs) Deutsch (de) English (en) Español (es).
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. verso.īook Synopsis On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
DJ has some chips and tears.About the Book "Reissued with new chronology and further reading, 2003"-T.p. Illustrated endpapers, no inscriptions or markings, clean throughout. He illustrated many books by Golden Press for young adult readers, such as Lassie Finds a Way (1957), Zorro and the Secret Plan (1958), Tonka (1959), Odyssey of an Otter (1960), and the Brains Benton mystery adventure series (1961). During the 1950s his work appeared in men's adventure magazines such as Cavalier, Argosy, Adventure, and True. He was a freelance illustrator for New York publishers. Illustrator Hamilton "Ham" Williams Greene was born in Boston, Massachusetts, he died of heart failure at home at the age of sixty-two on October 19, 1966. His novels have been adapted since the early twentieth century into nearly 200 films. Many of his historical novels of high adventure were originally published as serials, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later. His works have been translated into many languages, and he is one of the most widely read French authors. Alexandre Dumas ( born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, 24 July 1802 - 5 December 1870) was a French writer. Abridged, Mass Market Paperback, 531 pages. First published in French as Le comte de Monte-Cristo, Paris: 1844 first published in English. But whatever the setting, the pace is swift and the suspense high in this classic adventure story. The Count of Monte Cristo (Mass Market Paperback) Published December 1st 1984 by Bantam Classics. Its action shifts from the dungeon to rich palaces. The Count of Monte Cristo is an exciting tale of ship captains and smugglers, of a treacherous government agent and a bearded abbe whom men called mad. Original, Good Condition/fair, Brodart Covered. Red Boards with Gilt lettering on Spine and Front.
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