Name: Black (in French)
SKU: 60508661
Price: 867.00 TWD
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Author: Alejandro Dumas
ISBN: 9781530864942

Type

Physical Book

Author

Alejandro Dumas

Publisher

Createspace

Language

French

Pages

372

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x2 cm

Weight

0.49 kg.

ISBN13

9781530864942

Synopsis "Black (in French)"

Excerpt from Black: The Story of a Dog The Chevalier de la Graverie was on the second round of his walk about town. Perhaps a more logical way of entering upon the subject would be to inform the reader who the Chevalier de la Graverie was, and in which one of the eighty-six departments of France was situated the town where he was taking his walk. But, in a fit of spleen, induced probably by the fog we have lately breathed in England, we have resolved to construct a novel that shall be quite original in style, quite the reverse of other novels. For this reason, instead of entering upon our story at the beginning, as heretofore, we shall begin at the end, - confident that the example will be imitated, and that henceforth novels will begin only at the end. And yet another motive has led us to adopt this course of procedure: we fear lest the dryness of biographical details should repel the reader, and cause him to close the book at the end of the first leaf. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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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