Swashbuckling historical thriller, a parallel novel to Dumas's The Three Musketeers: In 1619 the esoteric and forbidden magic of the Rosicrucian Brotherhood was compiled into a single volume, The Three Mystic Heirs, a book furiously destroyed by the Inquisition—except for one copy! And Louis d'Astarac thinks he knows how to find it.Louis is a young French noble, witty, cultured, and trained in all the social graces of a 17th century courtier. But he's also a hunchback, stunted and ...

Cinema of Swords is a history, guide, and love letter to over four hundred movies and television shows featuring swashbucklers: knights, pirates, samurai, Vikings, gladiators, outlaw heroes like Zorro and Robin Hood, and anyone else who lives by the blade and solves their problems with the point of a sword.Though swordplay thrives as a mainstay of current pop culture—whether Game of Thrones or Lord of the Rings or Star Wars—swashbuckling was if anything even more ubiquitous during H...

The latest entry in this acclaimed series of new translations of the Musketeer novels, Blood Royal continues the adventures of the valiant d’Artagnan and his three loyal friends.The latest translation in Lawrence Ellsworth’s acclaimed new series of Alexandre Dumas’s greatest adventures is Blood Royal,the second half of what Dumas originally published as Twenty Years After. In this volume all the plots and schemes set up in the previous no...

For years d’Artagnan shared his adventures with his three comrades—Athos, Porthos, and Aramis—but now, in Between Two Kings, the First Musketeer returns to the forefront. This is truly d’Artagnan’s novel, bringing to a dramatic climax the story that began when he first arrived in Paris thirty years earlier in The Three Musketeers.This brand-new translation of Between Two Kings immediately picks up the story and themes of Blood Royal,

Swashbuckling historical thriller, a parallel novel to Dumas's The Three Musketeers: In 1619 the esoteric and forbidden magic of the Rosicrucian Brotherhood was compiled into a single volume, The Three Mystic Heirs, a book furiously destroyed by the Inquisition—except for one copy! And Louis d'Astarac thinks he knows how to find it.Louis is a young French noble, witty, cultured, and trained in all the social graces of a 17th century courtier. But he's also a hunchback, stunted and ...

A new translation picking up twenty years after the conclusion of The Three Musketeers and continuing the adventures of the valiant d’Artagnan and his three loyal friendsThe Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas’s most famous and enduring novel, completed its serial publication in the summer of 1844, and by the time of its book publication at the end of that year, readers were already demanding a sequel. They got it starting in January 1845, when the ...

For the first time in English in over a century comes a new translation of the forgotten sequel to Dumas’s The Three Musketeers, continuing the dramatic tale of Cardinal Richelieu and his implacable enemies.In 1844, Alexandre Dumas published The Three Musketeers, a novel so famous and still so popular today that it scarcely needs introduction. Shortly thereafter he wrote a sequel, Twenty Years After, that resumed the adventures of his swashbuckling heroes...

In Lawrence Ellsworth's sparkling new English translation, Court of Daggers is the second part of Dumas' ambitious mega-novel Le Vicomte de Bragelonne, a prelude leading to the epic climax of The Man in the Iron Mask. In this volume, the focus widens from the adventures of d'Artagnan to the now-adult King Louis XIV and the key members of his newly established royal court, all vying for power and prestige. Amid the intrigues of these many agendas and aspirations, ...

Devil’s Dance is a sparkling new English translation of the third part of Dumas’ ambitious mega-novel Le Vicomte de Bragelonne, a tale of d’Artagnan and the Three Musketeers and a prequel to The Man in the Iron Mask. The previous volume, Court of Daggers, focused on the bold Raoul de Bragelonne, Athos’ son, but Devil’s Dance belongs to its young heroine, Louise de La Valliere, beloved of both Raoul and King Louis XIV. The story takes Louise from...

Shadow of the Bastille is a sparkling new English translation of the fourth part of Dumas’ ambitious mega-novel Le Vicomte de Bragelonne, a tale of d’Artagnan and the Three Musketeers and a prequel to The Man in the Iron Mask. At the French royal court, romance and politics are two sides of the same coin, and in Shadow of the Bastille the intrigues finally boil over. The Musketeers return to the foreground in thrilling scenes that remind the reader why w...