The Last of the Three Musketeers; Or, the Prisoner of the Bastille de Alexandre Dumas

The Last of the Three Musketeers; Or, the Prisoner of the Bastille

Alexandre Dumas

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 mar 2011

Based on the riveting novel by Alexandre Dumas, Ten Years After, this is the bestselling author's final account of The Three Musketeers and their young recruit, D'Artagnan. In 1661 young Louis XIV is King of France. The Musketeers find themselves divided: Aramis (now secret head of the Jesuit Order) wants to replace Louis with his hidden twin brother, The Man in the Iron Mask. D'Artagnan, however, is the King's man and Captain of the Musketeers, and pledged to oppose any act against the throne. In the end, only one of the Musketeers can prevail. An exciting, action-filled drama of cutthroat politics!

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Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870) was a French writer. His works have been translated into nearly 100 languages and he is one of the most widely read French authors. 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 de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later. His novels have been adapted since the early twentieth century for nearly 200 films. Dumas' last novel, The Knight of Sainte-Hermine, unfinished at his death, was completed by a scholar and published in 2005, becoming a bestseller. It was published in English in 2008 as The Last Cavalier. Prolific in several genres, Dumas began his career by writing plays, which were successfully produced from the first. He also wrote numerous magazine articles and travel books; his published works totaled 100,000 pages.