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Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac

by Edmond Rostand

We are in Paris in 1640, the era of Dumas's Three Musketeers.

1821 309 ed.
Les Trois Mousquetaires
Les Trois Mousquetaires

by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet

Le pre­mier lun­di du mois d’avril 1625, le bourg de Meung, où na­quit l’au­teur du Ro­man de la Rose, sem­blait être da...

1844 1104 ed.
Vingt ans apres̀
Vingt ans apres̀

by Alexandre Dumas

IN a room of the Palais-Cardinal which we already know, near a table with silver gilt corners, loaded with papers and bo...

1800 268 ed.
Le vicomte de Bragelonne, ou, dix ans plus tard
Le vicomte de Bragelonne, ou, dix ans plus tard

by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet

The reader guesses beforehand whom the usher preceded in announcing the courier from Bretagne.

1848 355 ed.
Gideon the Ninth
Gideon the Ninth

by Tamsyn Muir

IN THE MYRIADIC YEAR OF OUR LORD—the ten thousandth year of the King Undying, the kindly Prince of Death!—Gideon Nav pac...

2019 7 ed.
El capitán Alatriste
El capitán Alatriste

by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

He was not the most honest or pious of men, but he was courageous.

1996 45 ed.
El maestro de esgrima
El maestro de esgrima

by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Much later, when Jaime Astarloa wanted to piece together the scattered fragments of the tragedy and tried to remember ho...

1988 34 ed.
The Vanishing Tower
The Vanishing Tower

by Michael Moorcock

In the sky, a cold moon, cloaked in clouds, sent down faint light that fell upon a sullen sea where a ship lay at anchor...

1971 23 ed.
The Skrayling Tree
The Skrayling Tree

by Michael Moorcock

I am Oona, the shape-taker, Grafin von Bek, daughter of Oon the Dreamthief and Elric, Sorcerer Emperor of Melnibone.

2003 3 ed.