The Red Sphinx, or, The Comte de Moret : a Sequel to The Three Musketeers
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Read by John Lee.
For the first time in English in over a century comes a new translation of the forgotten sequel to Dumas' The Three Musketeers, continuing the dramatic tale of Cardinal Richelieu and his implacable enemies. In 1844, Alexandre Dumas published The Three Musketeers, a novel so famous and still so popular today that it scarcely needs introduction. Shortly thereafter he wrote a sequel, Twenty Years After, that resumed the adventures of his swashbuckling heroes. Later, toward the end of his career, Dumas wrote The Red Sphinx, another direct sequel to The Three Musketeers that begins not twenty years later but a mere twenty days afterward. The Red Sphinx picks up right where the The Three Musketeers left off, continuing the stories of Cardinal Richelieu, Queen Anne, and King Louis XIII--and introducing a charming new hero, the Comte de Moret, a real historical figure from the period. A young cavalier newly arrived in Paris, Moret is an illegitimate son of the former king and thus half-brother to King Louis. The French Court seethes with intrigue as king, queen, and cardinal all vie for power, and young Moret soon finds himself up to his handsome neck in conspiracy, danger--and passionate romance. Dumas wrote seventy-five chapters of The Red Sphinx for serial publication but never finished it, and so the novel languished for almost a century before its first book publication in France in 1946. While Dumas never completed the book, he had earlier written a separate novella, The Dove, that recounted the final adventures of Moret and Cardinal Richelieu. Now for the first time, in one cohesive narrative, The Red Sphinx and The Dove make a complete and satisfying story line--a rip-roaring novel of historical adventure, heretofore unknown to English-language readers, by the great Alexandre Dumas, king of the swashbucklers.
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PUBLISHED
Ashland, OR : Blackstone Audio, [2017]
Year Published: 2017
Description: 20 audio discs (23 hr., 49 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: Book on CD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1455116416
9781455116416
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Lee, John Rafter,
Ellsworth, Lawrence,
SUBJECTS
Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, -- duc de, -- 1585-1642 -- Fiction.
Anne, -- Queen, consort of Louis XIII, King of France, -- 1601-1666 -- Fiction.
Moret, Antoine de Bourbon, -- comte de, -- 1607-1632 -- Fiction.
Louis -- XIII, -- King of France, -- 1601-1643 -- Fiction.
Dumas, Alexandre, -- 1802-1870 -- Translations into English.
Cardinals -- France -- Fiction.
Swordsmen -- Fiction.
France -- History -- Louis XIII, 1610-1643 -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.