- Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Napoleonic wars, 1800-1815, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, France, fiction
After being in prison for three years and wondering what his fate will be, Hector is released, but forced into battle.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Alexandre Dumas
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 816
- Publisher
- Pegasus, Harper Perennial, Funambulista
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- Spanish, French, English
- ISBN
- 9781933648316
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A French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne were serialized. He also wrote plays and magazine articles and was a prolific correspondent. (From Wikipedia.)
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