The Collected Works of Alexandre Dumas E-Book

Dumas Alexandre

• Herausgeber: PergamonMedia
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Serie: Highlights of World Literature
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

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Beschreibung

This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - 21600 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • The Count of Monte Cristo • Les trois mousquetaires. English • The Man in the Iron Mask • Twenty Years After • Celebrated Crimes • The Vicomte De Bragelonne • Ten Years Later • La dame aux camélias (Novel). English • La tulipe noire. English • Louise de la Valliere • The Borgias • Mary Stuart • Ali Pacha • Man in the Iron Mask (an Essay) • La reine Margot. English • Ten Years Later • Murat • Massacres of the South (-) • The Corsican Brothers • The Vicomte de Bragelonne • Urbain Grandier • Balsamo, the Magician; or, The Memoirs of a Physician • Les Quarante-cinq. English • Le collier de la reine. English • The Prussian Terror • Martin Guerre • The Countess of Charny • Taking the Bastile • The Companions of Jehu • The Mesmerist's Victim • The Countess of Saint Geran • Chicot the Jester • Essays in LittleAndrew Lang • The Conspirators • Karl Ludwig Sand • Marquise De Ganges • Joan of Naples • Cenci • The Hero of the People • Dumas' ParisM. F. Mansfield • Vaninka • Marquise Brinvillier • The Sicilian Bandit and José María de Pereda • Une fille du régent. English • The Royal Life Guard • Nisida • Captain Paul • Derues •.etc.

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Table of Contents

THE THREE MUSKETEERS

AUTHOR'S PREFACE

1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER

2 THE ANTECHAMBER OF M. DE TREVILLE

3 THE AUDIENCE

4 THE SHOULDER OF ATHOS, THE BALDRIC OF PORTHOS AND THE HANDKERCHIEF OF ARAMIS

5 THE KING'S MUSKETEERS AND THE CARDINAL'S GUARDS

6 HIS MAJESTY KING LOUIS XIII

7 THE INTERIOR* OF THE MUSKETEERS

8 CONCERNING A COURT INTRIGUE

9 D'ARTAGNAN SHOWS HIMSELF

10 A MOUSETRAP IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

11 IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS

12 GEORGE VILLIERS, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM

13 MONSIEUR BONACIEUX

14 THE MAN OF MEUNG

15 MEN OF THE ROBE AND MEN OF THE SWORD

16 IN WHICH M. SEGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE BELL

17 BONACIEUX AT HOME

18 LOVER AND HUSBAND

19 PLAN OF CAMPAIGN

20 THE JOURNEY

21 THE COUNTESS DE WINTER

22 THE BALLET OF LA MERLAISON

23 THE RENDEZVOUS

24 THE PAVILION

25 PORTHOS

26 ARAMIS AND HIS THESIS

27 THE WIFE OF ATHOS

28 THE RETURN

29 HUNTING FOR THE EQUIPMENTS

30 D'ARTAGNAN AND THE ENGLISHMAN

31 ENGLISH AND FRENCH

32 A PROCURATOR'S DINNER

33 SOUBRETTE AND MISTRESS

34 IN WHICH THE EQUIPMENT OF ARAMIS AND PORTHOS IS TREATED OF

35 A GASCON A MATCH FOR CUPID

36 DREAM OF VENGEANCE

37 MILADY'S SECRET

38 HOW, WITHOUT INCOMMDING HIMSELF, ATHOS PROCURES HIS EQUIPMENT

39 A VISION

40 A TERRIBLE VISION

41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE

42 THE ANJOU WINE

43 THE SIGN OF THE RED DOVECOT

44 THE UTILITY OF STOVEPIPES

45 A CONJUGAL SCENE

46 THE BASTION SAINT-GERVAIS

47 THE COUNCIL OF THE MUSKETEERS

48 A FAMILY AFFAIR

49 FATALITY

50 CHAT BETWEEN BROTHER AND SISTER

51 OFFICER

52 CAPTIVITY: THE FIRST DAY

53 CAPTIVITY: THE SECOND DAY

54 CAPTIVITY: THE THIRD DAY

55 CAPTIVITY: THE FOURTH DAY

56 CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY

57 MEANS FOR CLASSICAL TRAGEDY

58 ESCAPE

59 WHAT TOOK PLACE AT PORTSMOUTH AUGUST 23, 1628

60 IN FRANCE

61 THE CARMELITE CONVENT AT BETHUNE

62 TWO VARIETIES OF DEMONS

63 THE DROP OF WATER

64 THE MAN IN THE RED CLOAK

65 TRIAL

66 EXECUTION

67 CONCLUSION

EPILOGUE

THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK

by Alexandre Dumas

Contents

Chapter I. The Prisoner.

Chapter II. How Mouston Had Become Fatter without Giving Porthos Notice Thereof, and of the Troubles Which Consequently Befell that Worthy Gentleman.

Chapter III. Who Messire Jean Percerin Was.

Chapter IV. The Patterns.

Chapter V. Where, Probably, Moliere Obtained His First Idea of the Bourgeois Gentilhomme.

Chapter VI. The Bee-Hive, the Bees, and the Honey.

Chapter VII. Another Supper at the Bastile.

Chapter VIII. The General of the Order.

Chapter IX. The Tempter.

Chapter X. Crown and Tiara.

Chapter XI. The Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte.

Chapter XII. The Wine of Melun.

Chapter XIII. Nectar and Ambrosia.

Chapter XIV. A Gascon, and a Gascon and a Half.

Chapter XV. Colbert.

Chapter XVI. Jealousy.

Chapter XVII. High Treason.

Chapter XVIII. A Night at the Bastile.

Chapter XIX. The Shadow of M. Fouquet.

Chapter XX. The Morning.

Chapter XXI. The King's Friend.

Chapter XXII. Showing How the Countersign Was Respected at the Bastile.

Chapter XXIII. The King's Gratitude.

Chapter XXIV. The False King.

Chapter XXV. In Which Porthos Thinks He Is Pursuing a Duchy.

Chapter XXVI. The Last Adieux.

Chapter XXVII. Monsieur de Beaufort.

Chapter XXVIII. Preparations for Departure.

Chapter XXIX. Planchet's Inventory.

Chapter XXX. The Inventory of M. de Beaufort.

Chapter XXXI. The Silver Dish.

Chapter XXXII. Captive and Jailers.

Chapter XXXIII. Promises.

Chapter XXXIV. Among Women.

Chapter XXXV. The Last Supper.

Chapter XXXVI. In M. Colbert's Carriage.

Chapter XXXVII. The Two Lighters.

Chapter XXXVIII. Friendly Advice.

Chapter XXXIX. How the King, Louis XIV., Played His Little Part.

Chapter XL: The White Horse and the Black.

Chapter XLI. In Which the Squirrel Falls,—the Adder Flies.

Chapter XLII. Belle-Ile-en-Mer.

Chapter XLIII. Explanations by Aramis.

Chapter XLIV. Result of the Ideas of the King, and the Ideas of D'Artagnan.

Chapter XLV. The Ancestors of Porthos.

Chapter XLVI. The Son of Biscarrat.

Chapter XLVII. The Grotto of Locmaria.

Chapter XLVIII. The Grotto.

Chapter XLIX. An Homeric Song.

Chapter L: The Death of a Titan.

Chapter LI. Porthos's Epitaph.

Chapter LII. M. de Gesvres's Round.

Chapter LIII. King Louis XIV.

Chapter LIV. M. Fouquet's Friends.

Chapter LV. Porthos's Will.

Chapter LVI. The Old Age of Athos.

Chapter LVII. Athos's Vision.

Chapter LVIII. The Angel of Death.

Chapter LIX. The Bulletin.

Chapter LX. The Last Canto of the Poem.

Epilogue.

Footnotes

LINKS TO ALL VOLUMES OF "CELEBRATED CRIMES"

CONTENTS

THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK [An Essay]

MARGUERITE DE VALOIS.

CHAPTER I.

MONSIEUR DE GUISE'S LATIN.

CHAPTER II.

THE QUEEN OF NAVARRE'S BEDCHAMBER.

CHAPTER III.

THE POET-KING.

CHAPTER IV.

THE EVENING OF THE 24TH OF AUGUST, 1572.

CHAPTER V.

OF THE LOUVRE IN PARTICULAR, AND OF VIRTUE IN GENERAL.

CHAPTER VI.

THE DEBT PAID.

CHAPTER VII.

THE NIGHT OF THE 24TH OF AUGUST, 1572.

CHAPTER VIII.

THE MASSACRE.

CHAPTER IX.

THE MURDERERS.

CHAPTER X.

DEATH, MASS, OR THE BASTILLE.

CHAPTER XI.

THE HAWTHORN OF THE CEMETERY OF THE INNOCENTS.

CHAPTER XII.

MUTUAL CONFIDENCES.

CHAPTER XIII.

HOW THERE ARE KEYS WHICH OPEN DOORS THEY ARE NOT MEANT FOR.

CHAPTER XIV.

THE SECOND MARRIAGE NIGHT.

CHAPTER XV.

WHAT WOMAN WILLS, GOD WILLS.

CHAPTER XVI.

A DEAD ENEMY'S BODY ALWAYS SMELLS SWEET.

CHAPTER XVII.

MAÎTRE AMBROISE PARÉ'S CONFRÈRE.

CHAPTER XVIII.

THE GHOSTS.

CHAPTER XIX.

THE ABODE OF MAÎTRE RÉNÉ, PERFUMER TO THE QUEEN MOTHER.

CHAPTER XX.