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Novela de aventuras pero también policíaca, de traiciones y maniobras políticas en el Madrid galdosiano de 1868.

En el Madrid galdosiano de 1868 Jaime Astarloa es un maestro de esgrima que trabaja dando clases de florete a algunos nobles de la ciudad. Todo el escenario cambia cuando entra en juego una dama que desea tomar clases de esgrima con Astarloa...

El maestro de esgrima es la historia de un mundo de tahúres y mercachifles mantenido a distancia por un florete honorable. Pero es, sobre todo, una inquietante parábola sobre el poder del dinero, la ambición política y la extinción de los valores de honradez y fidelidad en este siglo XX que agoniza.

El maestro de esgrima fue llevada al cine por Pedro Olea.

La crítica ha dicho...«Arturo Pérez-Reverte es un maestro del suspense y su libro es deslumbrante.»Publisher Weekly

«El maestro de esgrima sumerge al lector en un duelo elegante cargado de intriga y sensualidad.»The Observer

«En lugar del típico puzzle de engaños propio de las novelas de intriga, El maestro de esgrima nos ofrece una sutil meditación sobre los enigmas profundos de la elección y el Destino. Una espléndida novela de la primera a la última página.»The New York Times Book Review

«Pérez-Reverte conoce todos los secretos sobre cómo conservar un equilibro entre acción y suspense de tal modo que mantiene al lector absorto... Lo que hace irresistible a Pérez-Reverte es su sensibilidad radicalmente moderna, inteligente y compleja.»The Boston Globe Book Review

«Erudición bien calibrada e intriga soberbia. El autor se divierte y nos divierte.»Libération

«Arturo Pérez-Reverte ha sabido encontrar la estocada perfecta.»Oggi

«El autor es, en el mejor sentido, un romántico, y leerlo es volver a descubrir el placer de Dumas o Conan Doyle.»The Times

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Fallen angels, satanic manuals, and a passion for the works of Raphael Sabatini and Alexandre Dumas among others--this is the stuff of Spanish author Arturo Pérez-Reverte's engrossing novel The Club Dumas. Set in a world of antiquarian booksellers where dealers would gladly betray their own mothers to get their hands on a rare volume, The Club Dumas is a thinking person's thriller: in addition to a riveting plot, the book is full of intriguing details that range from the working habits of Alexandre Dumas to how one might go about forging a 17th-century text. Woven through these meditations is enough murder, sex, and the occult to keep both the hero, Lucas Corso, and the reader hopping.

As in his previous novel, The Flanders Panel, set in the world of art restoration, Mr. Pérez-Reverte has written a literary thriller to tease both the intellect and adrenaline gland. Lucas Corso makes a complex, ultimately sympathetic hero, and there's plenty to delight in the intricate twists and turns the story takes before the mystery of The Club Dumas is finally solved.

From the Inside Flap

"A cross between Umberto Eco and Anne Rice. . . .Think of The Club Dumas as a beach book for intellectuals." --New York Daily News

Lucas Corso, middle-aged, tired, and cynical, is a book detective, a mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. When a well-known bibliophile is found hanged, leaving behind part of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers, Corso is brought in to authenticate the fragment.

The task seems straightforward, but the unsuspecting Corso is soon drawn into a swirling plot involving devil worship, occult practices, and swashbuckling derring-do among a cast of characters bearing a suspicious resemblance to those of Dumas's masterpiece. Aided by a mysterious beauty named for a Conan Doyle heroine, Corso travels from Madrid to Toledo to Paris in pursuit of a sinister and seemingly omniscient killer. Part mystery, part puzzle, part witty intertextual game, The Club Dumas is a wholly original intellectual thriller by the internationally bestselling author of The Flanders Panel and The Seville Communion.

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  • PublisherPunto de Lectura
  • Publication date2011
  • ISBN 10 8466320628
  • ISBN 13 9788466320627
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages320
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