Name: Aventures de John Davys (in French)
SKU: 57584632
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Author: Alejandro Dumas
ISBN: 9781502948304

portada Aventures de John Davys (in French)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Alejandro Dumas

Publisher

Createspace

Language

French

Pages

434

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x2.2 cm

Weight

0.58 kg.

ISBN13

9781502948304

Synopsis "Aventures de John Davys (in French)"

Écrit en 1840, Les Aventures de John Davys est l'un des premiers romans d'Alexandre Dumas. L'histoire se situe dans les années 1810 durant les guerres napoléoniennes, non les champs de bataille de ces guerres mais la Turquie, et la Grèce qui cherche à sortir du joug ottoman. John Davys, jeune Anglais pétri de gloire, d'honneur, de fidélité, de justice et de courage embarquant à bord d'un vaisseau de guerre, est typique des héros de Dumas. Au cours d'aventures initiatiques mouvementées, il connait l'amitié, l'amour, l'injustice, la haine. D'autres personnages dumasiens sont présents: un capitaine au grand coeur qui adore ses matelots, un officier cruel et perfide, une belle et chaste héroïne. On croise aussi dans ce roman cruel et passionnant des personnages historiques tels le sultan Mahmoud II ou lord Byron. Tous les éléments d'un drame tel que Dumas l'affectionne sont réunis. L'aventure peut commencer...

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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