Name: Amaury (in French)
SKU: 59374354
Price: 903.00 TWD
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Author: Alejandro Dumas
ISBN: 9782322456024

Type

Physical Book

Author

Alejandro Dumas

Publisher

Books on Demand

Language

French

Pages

306

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21x14.8x1.8 cm

Weight

0.40 kg.

ISBN13

9782322456024

Synopsis "Amaury (in French)"

En effet, savez-vous quelque chose de plus charmant qu'un de ces petits comités, dans le coin d'un salon élégant, entre cinq à six personnes qui laissent capricieusement aller la parole au gré de leur caprice, suivant et caressant une idée tant qu'elle leur sourit, l'abandonnant lorsqu'elles en ont épuisé toute la saveur, pour se reprendre à une autre idée qui grandit et se développe à son tour au milieu de la raillerie des uns, des paradoxes des autres, de l'esprit de tous, puis qui, tout à coup, arrivée à l'apogée de son éclat, au zénith de son développement, disparaît, s'évapore, se volatilise comme une bulle de savon au toucher de la maîtresse de la maison qui, une tasse de thé à la main, s'approche, navette vivante qui porte d'un groupe à l'autre le fil argenté de la causerie générale, recueillant les avis, demandant les opinions, posant des problèmes, et forçant de temps en temps chaque coterie de jeter son mot dans ce tonneau des Danaïdes qu'on appelle la conversation ?

Alejandro Dumas

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Alexandre Dumas is one of the most prolific and popular authors from France. He was born in 1802 in the city of Villers-Cotterets, and soon moved to Paris to work as a secretary for the Duke of Orléans. There, he completed his education on his own and began to take an interest in writing.
He started by writing plays, and then moved on to poems and long stories. However, his real success did not come until 1844, the year he released the work that would catapult him to fame: The Three Musketeers. The serial publication of this novel brought him a huge sum of money, but it also meant countless hours of work, many collaborators, and the production of up to eighty installments to meet the growing public demand.
After the publication of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, Dumas amassed a great fortune. However, his hedonistic nature led him to squander all he had earned and he soon found himself forced to exile in Belgium to escape his French creditors.
The Count of Monte Cristo, the pinnacle of the author's narrative, is considered one of the greatest adventure novels of all time.

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