Alexandre Dumas

The Prussian Terror

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Produktbeschreibung

The Prussian Terror was one of Dumas' last novels and paints a picture of the Austro-Prussian War of 1866. The novel opens in Berlin with a patriotic Benedict Turpin facing a Prussian contingent stationed in Frankfurt, a friendship what developes with Count Frederic von Bulow, a favorite of the Kaiser, the women they grow to love and war that tears at them all. Alexandre Dumas was a French writer whose works have been translated into nearly 100 languages. His historical novels include The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, The Corsican Brothers, and The Man in the Iron Mask.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bottom of the Hill Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 191mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 323g
• ISBN-13: 9781483705811
• ISBN-10: 1483705811
• Artikelnr.: 41198867

Autorenporträt

Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870) was a French writer. His works have been translated into nearly 100 languages and he is one of the most widely read French authors. Many of his historical novels of high adventure were originally published as serials, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later. His novels have been adapted since the early twentieth century for nearly 200 films. Dumas' last novel, The Knight of Sainte-Hermine, unfinished at his death, was completed by a scholar and published in 2005, becoming a bestseller. It was published in English in 2008 as The Last Cavalier. Prolific in several genres, Dumas began his career by writing plays, which were successfully produced from the first. He also wrote numerous magazine articles and travel books; his published works totaled 100,000 pages.