Louise de La Valliere

Alexandre Dumas

ISBN 10: 1441714928 ISBN 13: 9781441714923

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks, 2012

Synopsis

[Read by Simon Vance]

[Translated by George Routledge & Co.]

Following The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After, Dumas continued his D'Artagnan romances with a final trilogy set during the reign of Louis XIV. Louise de La Valliere, the second novel in that trilogy, continues the suspense which began with The Vicomte de Bragelonne and will end with The Man in the Iron Mask. Filled with behind-the-scenes political intrigues and set against a tender love story, the novel brings the aging Musketeers out of retirement to face an impending crisis within the royal court of France. As always, Dumas brings French history to life with excitement and romance.

About this title

About the Author:

ALEXANDRE DUMAS (1802-1870), French novelist and playwright, was born the son of an innkeeper's daughter and one of Napoleon's generals. He moved to Paris in 1823 to make his fortune in the theater, and at twenty-eight he was one of the leading literary figures of his day. His complete works were eventually to fill over three hundred volumes, and his stories made him the best-known Frenchman of his age.

Review:

''One of the very best of the series, mixing amorous and political intrigue with an elan peculiar to Dumas . . . This quasi-historical series remains remarkably readable.'' --Irish Times (Dublin)

About this edition

• Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1441714928
• ISBN 13: 9781441714923
• Binding: Audio CD