Alexandre Dumas
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Set in the time just before Napoleon's return to power, this adventurous tale follows the trials and tribulations of Edmond Dantes. After being unjustly imprisoned on the day of his wedding, Edmond devises a plan that leads to his escape, a hoard of treasure, and a new identity: the Count of Monte Cristo. A tale of courage, vengeance, romance and betrayal!
63) Muttketeer!
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Adventures of Wishbone volume 8
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English
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Locked out of the school while Joe and his friends are inside, Wishbone imagines himself as D'Artagnan, a young seventeenth-century Frenchman who achieves his dream of becoming one of the prestigious musketeers who guard the king and his court.
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In seventeenth-century France, young D'Artagnan initially quarrels with, then befriends, three musketeers and joins them in trying to outwit the enemies of the king and queen. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
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Thrown into a political marriage of convenience by her ruthlessly power-hungry family, the beautiful Margot soon finds herself hopelessly drawn into their murderous affairs. It's then she realizes her only hope of escape lies somewhere between the heroic soldier who loves her and the enemy husband who could save her.
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All for one and one for all! Recounts the adventures of d'Artagnan, a poor young nobleman, who leaves home and travels to Paris to join the elite Musketeers of the Guard. He joins the three most formidable musketeers of the age -- Athos, Porthos and Aramis -- and they get involved in affairs of the state and the court. Pitted against the Machiavellian Cardinal Richelieu and the unscrupulous seductress Milady de Winter, they need all their valour and...
74) Robin des Bois
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Geronimo Stilton, cet intellectuel sensible et raffiné qui dirige "L'écho des rongeurs", se propose ici de raconter à ses admirateurs les grands classiques de la littérature pour la jeunesse qui ont bercé son enfance et qui l'ont fait voyager dans des contrées aussi fabuleuses qu'exotiques. Chaque opus de la série fait donc revivre un chef-d'oeuvre littéraire, dont les protagonistes se voient conférer les traits de rongeurs humanisés. Sous...
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Edmond Dantes is a clever young seaman, but he has enemies who tell lies about him. On the day of his wedding to the beautiful Mercedes, Edmond is thrown into prison. There he meets a man who tells him about some treasure on the island of Monte Cristo. Will Edmond escape from prison and find the treasure? And will he see Mercedes again? -- from p. 4 of cover.
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D'Artagnan is a naive and ambitious farm boy who yearns to join the Musketeers, the elite regiment of guards under King Louis XIII. Riding into 1625 Paris on the back of a weathered plowhorse, the young rapscallion quickly wins the respect and friendship of the Musketeers' most valiant trio in a breathtaking display of a acrobatic swordsmanship. When Queen Anne is maneuvered into a political scandal by the devious Cardinal Richelieu, D'Artagnan and...
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Bardelys: The Marquis de Bardelys (Gilbert), womanizer and swashbuckler, is entranced by Roxalanne de Lavedan (Eleanor Boardman), and against a background of knavery and intrigue, he sets out to woo and win her.
Monte Cristo: Gilbert is Edmond Dantes, a sailor unjustly imprisoned for twenty years, time he spends acquiring education and finesse. Later the accidental heir to a vast fortune, he reinvents himself as the Count of Monte Cristo and wreaks...