Seeing a regiment of Dragoons process through Paris in 1800, Philippe de Ségur decided to join the French cavalry at the ripe old age of 19, swiftly becoming part of Napoleon's headquarters staff. From then on, his career was to be unlike many of his contemporaries, for he was the son of a well-connected father and a protégé of Napoleon's confidante, Grand-Marshal Duroc. He saw service in all of the major Napoleonic campaigns, not just a courtier, distinguished in the crucible of the caval...

Dans "Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, Tome II", co-écrit par Alexandre Dumas et Auguste Maquet, l'histoire d'Edmond Dantès se poursuit alors qu'il endosse l'identité du comte de Monte-Cristo. Armé de son immense fortune et d'un esprit calculateur, il se lance dans l'exécution de sa vengeance contre ceux qui ont causé sa chute. À travers un réseau complexe d'intrigues et de manipulations, il met patiemment en place les pièces de son jeu mortel. Le Comte s'infiltre dans la haute société parisienne...

One of the great novelist’s most popular works, Oliver Twist is also the purest distillation of Dickens’s genius.This tale of the orphan who is reared in a workhouse and runs away to London is a novel of social protest, a morality tale, and a detective story. Oliver Twist presents some of the most sinister characters in Dickens: the master thief, Fagin; the leering Artful Dodger; the murderer, Bill Sikes…along with some of his most sentimental and...

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo Tome IV by Alexandre Dumas.

A new translation finally appears of one of the seminal books in the history of literature. Adored by the Surrealists, Les Chants de Maldoror was hailed by them as a dark progenitor of their movement, and its author, Le Comte de Lautréamont (Isidore Ducasse) elevated to the status of literary idol. It was in these pages that André Breton discovered the phrase which would come to represent the Surrealist doctrine of objective chance: as beautiful as the random encounter between an umbrella ...

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Le Comte de Monte-Cristo Tome III by Alexandre Dumas.

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo Tome II by Alexandre Dumas.

Can we do without religion? Can we have ethics without God? Is there such thing as 'atheistic spirituality'? In this powerful book, the internationally bestselling author André Comte-Sponville presents a philosophical exploration of atheism - and reaches startling conclusions.Atheists, Comte-Sponville argues, are no less interested in a spiritual life than religious believers. But by allowing the concept of spirituality to become intertwined with religion and dogma, humanity has lo...

La fabuleuse histoire de transformation d’un homme soumis à la pire des injustices, qui accède à une fortune illimitée et à la toute puissance et mène à bien une implacable vengeance. Un chef d'oeuvre de Alexandre Dumas.*Tout les tomes sont regrouper en un seul livre.

The much wounded Count Rapp recounts his services under the Emperor Napoleon across Europe and into the depths of Russia. His frequent battlefield exploits, including a decisive charge with the Imperial Guard cavalry at Austerlitz, are balanced by polished descriptions of the court of the First Empire. Rapp's rise is charted from obscurity in the armies of the Republic to catching the attention of General Desaix whilst fighting on the Rhine, and thereafter General Bonaparte in Egypt and It...

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo Tome I by Alexandre Dumas.