Celebrated Crimes (Complete) — Alexandre Dumas
Topics: класика
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*CELEBRATED CRIMES, COMPLETE*
By
*Alexandre Dumas, Père*
In Eight Volumes
1910
Dumas’s ’Celebrated Crimes’ was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language—has minced no words—to describe the violent scenes of a violent time.
INTRODUCTION
The contents of these volumes of ’Celebrated Crimes’, as well as the motives which led to their inception, are unique. They are a series of stories based upon historical records, from the pen of Alexandre Dumas, pere, when he was not "the elder," nor yet the author of D’Artagnan or Monte Cristo, but was a rising young dramatist and a lion in the literary set and world of fashion.
Dumas, in fact, wrote his ’Crimes Celebres’ just prior to launching…
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