The Whites and the Blues (eBook, PDF) - Dumas, Alexandre
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This book is the second of the Napoleon Novels, first being The Companions of Jehu. It is as much as a prequel as a sequel to that novel. Dumas is one of those novelist that can make the pages fly by. Battles, romance, treachery and fictional characters woven among historical characters make Dumas one of the best historical novelist of the eighteen hundreds.
During the French Revolution, young Charles is sent to be tutored by Euloge Schneider. But Schneider has become the Public Prosecutor for the town, and is now known as a bloodthirsty monster. Only Saint Just, the Angel of Death, can…mehr

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This book is the second of the Napoleon Novels, first being The Companions of Jehu. It is as much as a prequel as a sequel to that novel. Dumas is one of those novelist that can make the pages fly by. Battles, romance, treachery and fictional characters woven among historical characters make Dumas one of the best historical novelist of the eighteen hundreds.

During the French Revolution, young Charles is sent to be tutored by Euloge Schneider. But Schneider has become the Public Prosecutor for the town, and is now known as a bloodthirsty monster. Only Saint Just, the Angel of Death, can save the day. The last of Dumas's plays to be performed during his lifetime, The Whites and the Blues is an undiscovered masterpiece of suspense.
 
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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.