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Title: LA Reine Margot by Alexandre Dumas, David Coward ISBN: 0-19-283844-X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: November, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.62 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: swashbuckling and intrigue
Comment: This is Dumas at his almost-finest, very vivid and exciting, great characters and plot, even Nostradamus! As fine as Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth. The reason that the title is given in French is because it would translate as Queen Madge, which doesn't sound so good.
Rating: 5
Summary: fun, great novel on court intrigue
Comment: This is a lesser known Dumas novel than, say, the Count of Monte Christo. But it is just as good as the others he did: vivid personalities, attention to detail, and fabulously intricate plots. It tells the story of Margot and her marriage to the King of Navarre, an ambitious Hugenot in constant danger of assassination. With the backdrop of the religious wars, she finds love in a knight that she attempts to cloister from the dangers of court intrigue. It ends in tragedy, hope, and the promise of further adventure.
Based on available historical sources at the time and embellished with Dumas' unique sense of drama, it is a spectacular read, full of danger, sudden developments, and psychological depth. While it may not be as deep as Stendhal's best works, it is absolutely first rate as a historical novel, a genre that Dumas helped to develop. It stimulates the reader's desire to plung more deeply into French history as well.
High recommendation.
Rating: 4
Summary: A historical French soap-opera
Comment: This is a Historical novel that takes place in France, in the XVIth century. There's a very very bad black widow -as a matter of fact, black mother as well this is Catherine of Médicis-, a beautiful and amorous young queen married to somebody she does not love but with whom she forms an alliance just in order not to be a widow herself and go to a convent, a romantic heroe, his true friend -who sometimes loves him a little bit too much and a bunch of intriguers. Alexandre Dumas, in his newspaper serial style - this novel was first published that way-, interweave different stories aboiding boring descriptions and getting to the point: quick dialogue, short chapters, attractive characters, and everything to catch you from the first page, which he achieves. It really is a page turner, with several love stories that never goes with marriage and several marriages that never goes with love but with alliances. I have read that some United States reviewers are a bit confused because of the historical part and that's a problem unless you know European History or have a book with comments and notes. If you end the book and want to know what happened afterwards, read British Enciclopedia or something like that, because all characters are historical, even the Romantic hero La Mole and his friend. To those that have seen the 1990s French movie, you have the advantage of imagining the whole story with the beautiful faces of Isabelle Adjani and Vincent Perez, and the great soundtrack and spectacular staging from his director, which reminds of an opera. To those who doesn't I'd say go to your videoclub and try to find it!! It's not a substitute but a perfect complement.
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Title: Twenty Years After (Oxford World's Classics) by Alexandre Dumas, David Coward ISBN: 0192838431 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Vicomte De Bragelonne (Oxford World's Classics) by Alexandre Dumas, David Coward ISBN: 0192834630 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Louise de la Valliere by Alexandre Dumas, David Coward ISBN: 0192834657 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Knight of Maison-Rouge : A Novel of Marie Antoinette by JULIE ROSE, LORENZO CARCATERRA, ALEXANDRE DUMAS ISBN: 0679642986 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas ISBN: 0140367470 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: November, 1995 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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