The Count Of Monte Cristo Part Two The Resurrection Of Edmond Dantes

Author : Alexandre Dumas,Frank J. Morlock
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781434437570

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The Count of Monte Cristo, Part Two: The Resurrection of Edmond Dantes by Alexandre Dumas,Frank J. Morlock Pdf

The Count of Monte Cristo, one of the greatest adventure novels of all time, has been converted by the author into a series of four plays. In PART TWO, Edmond Dantes has escaped from the dreaded prison island of d'If after 14 years of captivity. He seeks out the fabulous treasure of Monte Cristo described to him by the Abbe Faria, and assumes the identity of the priest Busoni. Then he begins his odyssey of revenge, tracking down Caderousse and his wife, La Carconte, and finding the trail of Villefort, another of his betrayers. He also secretly helps his former employer, Mr. Morel. But he has yet to assume the identity of the avenging Count of Monte Cristo! First-rate action drama!

Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : Borgo Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1434435288

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The Count of Monte Cristo, Part One by Alexandre Dumas Pdf

This dramatization of the classic novel is the first of four parts. In 1815 Napoleon has fled to Elba, and the Bourbons have been restored to the French throne. Young Edmond Dantes is First Mate and Acting Capt. of the merchant ship Pharoah. Everything seems bright for his future, until he's arrested for delivering a letter to Elba--a dying request of his former captain. Then three men conspire to send the innocent youth to the notorious island prison, the Chateau d'If. There Dantes meets the Abbe Faria, who gives him an education, and tells him of a fabulous treasure he's discovered. But Faria suddenly dies, and Edmond must take advantage of the sudden opportunity, or risk being imprisoned for life. He sews himself into the Abbe's burial shroud. Can he survive the plunge into the sea? An absolutely riveting drama.

Author : Alexandre Dumas,Frank J. Morlock
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781434437587

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The Count of Monte Cristo, Part Three by Alexandre Dumas,Frank J. Morlock Pdf

The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the great adventure novels of all time. But the author, Alexandre Dumas, also adapted his novel into four riveting plays. Part Three: The Rise of Monte Cristo is set two decades after Edmond Dantès has been unjustly imprisoned in the Château d'If. Edmond has made himself into the Count of Monte Cristo, and he now sets out to gain his revenge upon the three men who shangaied him into 14 years of prison. First on the list is Fernand Mondego, whose treacheries have brought him a fortune, a title (the Count of Morcerf), and a wife: Edmond's fiancée, Mercédès, who's long believed him dead. Monte Cristo uses his great wealth to draw a net around Fernand, gradually exposing his lies to the world. Finally, the two men must confront each other--knowing that only one of them will leave the room alive! Great action drama!

Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781434437594

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The Count of Monte Cristo, Part Four by Alexandre Dumas Pdf

The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the great adventure novels of the nineteenth century. But the author, Alexandre Dumas, also converted many of his fictions into riveting dramas, dividing his classic tale of revenge into four plays. In this fourth and final part, Edmond Dantes (the Count of Monte Cristo) sets out to destroy Danglars and Villefort, the other two men who had helped shanghai him to the island prison of Chateau d'If. He uses Danglars's illegitimate child, Benedetto, to secure his downfall, but loses control of his plan when Madame de Villefort begins poisoning her in-laws to allow her own son to inherit her husband's wealth. Monte Cristo must use all of his power to save Villefort's daughter, Valentine, the beloved of Maximilian Morel, the son of Monte Cristo's old benefactor. Can he find a way to outwit his enemies?

Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:79286612

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The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Pdf

Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781434443236

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Sylvandire: A Play in Four Acts by Alexandre Dumas Pdf

In 1844-45, while Alexandre Dumas was working on his two classic novels, The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, he found time to write a play called Sylvandire. A young provincial, Roger Tancred d'Anguilem, arrives in Paris to fight a legal battle for a huge inheritance. His opponent is an Indian called Afghano, who has bribed the judges. The case appears lost until Roger's approached by a sleazy lawyer who promises him success--but only if he marries a woman sight unseen. Sylvandire, his new wife, turns out to be a stunning beauty, but the marriage is intended to deliver his spouse as the unwilling mistress of a royal favorite, who can imprison Roger if he resists. The Dumasian themes of unjust imprisonment, followed by implacable revenge, which were more fully developed in Monte Cristo, here make their first appearance in this entertaining and swift-moving comedy.

Author : Frank J. Morlock
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781434446237

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The Venetian by Frank J. Morlock Pdf

To save his father from execution for treason, the Bravo Giovanni agrees to act as an assassin for The Council of Ten, and ruthlessly carries out their orders for targeted killings against real or imagined enemies of the Serene Republic of Venice in Italy. Inevitably, the Council members begin using the Bravo for their own purposes. When the Count de Bellamonte lusts after a helpless orphan girl, he forces Giovanni to eliminate her protector. But the girl's mother, the most sought-after courtesan in Venice, uses all her power and influence to protect her daughter. The play, adapted from a novel by American writer James Fenimore Cooper, is filled with eerie beauty and quiet horror--like Venice itself, a gondola of pretty pearls rocking gently on the murky, putrefying, garbage-laden waves of its many canals.

Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781434443878

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The Gold Thieves by Alexandre Dumas Pdf

Dr. Ivans, unable to make a living in London, migrates with his two daughters to Australia, where he hopes to make his fortune; one of his girls, Melida, is forced to leave her suitor, Williams, behind. Arriving in Australia, Ivans finds himself unable to improve his fortune--he's too willing to help the poor, and has a good reputation for charitable works. Then a group of gold miners, a motley crew of Frenchmen, send for him to heal a young miner who's dying. This poor lad was stabbed by a young man named Max, who posed as his friend to steal his gold. Max falls madly in love with Melida, who is still pining for Williams. When Williams follows his lover to Australia, and gets a job with the government escorting gold shipments from the mines to Melbourne, Max decides to hijack the shipment and kill Williams. Eventually, Max is exposed and tries to kidnap Melida, leading to the action-filled climax of this fast-moving Australian "western." One of Dumas's most unusual creations, this was based on a bestselling novel by the Countess de Chabrillan.

Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781434447296

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Lorenzino by Alexandre Dumas Pdf

This powerful, eloquent play moves like a Greek tragedy to its inevitable conclusion. Dumas's drama is based on an actual event--the assassination of Duke Alexander of Medici in 1537 by his cousin, Lorenzo. Lorenzino lures his relative to a trap under the pretext of providing him with a woman. He gets close to the Duke by pandering to his lusts, just so that he'll have the opportunity to kill him. His plan ultimately works, but results in the suicide of the woman Lorenzino loves, and the complete discrediting of the assassin in the public eye. Freedom from tyranny comes with a terrible price! A first-rate drama penned two years before The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.

Author : Alexandre Dumas,Emmanuel Théaulon
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781479408795

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The Mad Marquis by Alexandre Dumas,Emmanuel Théaulon Pdf

Written in 1836, this collaborative play is based on a real-life incident, using the actual names of the principals involved. The young Marquis de Brunoy is snubbed at the French Royal Court of Versailles because his father, a financier, had been ennobled for his great wealth. After having to fight several duels to defend his honor, the Marquis strikes back by disregarding his rank and wealth, and associating with peasants and artisans as equals. The more extravagant that his behavior becomes, the more the French nobility feels ridiculed. The final straw is when the Marquis dares to ennoble some of his peasants. Then he's hauled before a court, where the noblemen seek to have him judged insane. A first-rate revenge play by a master of the form.

Author : Alexandre Dumas,Frederic Gaillardet
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-22
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781479406432

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The Tower of Death: A Play in Five Acts by Alexandre Dumas,Frederic Gaillardet Pdf

Tour de Nesle (The Tower of Death) is one of Alexandre Dumas's greatest and most powerful plays, a tale of power and conviction, although its historical accuracy is far from certain. Queen Marguerite and her sisters entertain themselves by luring unsuspecting men to the Tower, which located across the Seine from the Louvre. There they entice their victims to join them for wild sexual escapades--all expressly forbidden, of course, by both Church and State. Once satiated, the ladies have their lovers murdered, and the bodies dumped into the Seine. One man (Buridan) manages to escape, and uses his knowledge of what's taking place to force the Queen to make him Prime Minister. In the end of course, the secret cannot be maintained. Dumas and Gaillardet have used a murky legend of misconduct by the daughters-in-law of King Philip the Fair to construct a compelling picture of life in court in the middle ages, and its ruthless focus on power and sex. Another stunning achievement by one of the greatest French writers!

Author : Alexandre Dumas,Eugène Grangé,Xavier de Montépin
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781434446336

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The Corsican Brothers: A Play in Three Acts by Alexandre Dumas,Eugène Grangé,Xavier de Montépin Pdf

This adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas tale tells the story of two brothers, born as Siamese twins, but separated not long after birth. They're raised by two different families, but are still able to "feel" the emotions of the other, even at a distance. On the island of Corsica they become entwined in the long-running feud between the Orlandi and the Colonnas--a dispute that had its beginnings in a dispute over the ownership of a chicken! Most of the two families have now been eliminated through the ongoing blood-feud, but the twins, unbeknownst to each other, are being manipulated to settle the fate of the two clans once and for all. The result is a stunning climax of swordplay and violence!

Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781479409709

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Queen Margot: A Play in Five Acts by Alexandre Dumas Pdf

Written in 1847, while Dumas was at the height of his powers, this play recounts the events leading up to the Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre of the French Huguenots--and the subsequent death of King Charles IX. The playwright focuses on the people inadvertently caught up in the slaughter--which, once started, cannot be repressed. By following the fate of two nobles, the Catholic Count Coconnas and the Huguenot Count de la Mole, and linking their stories to Queen Marguerite (called Margot), wife in name only to the Huguenot King of Navarre (the future King Henry IV of France), Dumas reveals the terror and duplicity that the massacre incurred even at the highest levels of society--including the royal family. Despite its length, the story moves quickly and with great force. One of Dumas's best historical narratives!

Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781434442635

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Bathilda: A Play in Three Acts by Alexandre Dumas Pdf

Adapted by Alexandre Dumas from a script by Auguste Maquet, BATHILDA tells the story of a woman who's raped by Marcel, and becomes his lover for a time. After she leaves him and moves to Paris, she meets Deworde, her deceased spouse's nephew, and plans to marry him. But Marcel pursues her, determined that if he can't have her, no one else will either. He plays a cat-and-mouse game with Bathilda, Deworde, and his friend Guilaumin, until their final confrontation. Will Marcel have his bullying way? Or will Bathilda find some resolution to her seemingly impossible moral dilemma? A great early work by this major French writer!

Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Dime novels
ISBN : OCLC:78212504

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The Count of Monte Cristo (part II), Or, The Revenge of Edmond Dantes by Alexandre Dumas Pdf