Name: Jane (in French)
SKU: 57913769
Price: 20.81 EUR
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Author: Alejandro Dumas
ISBN: 9781505363821

Type

Physical Book

Author

Alejandro Dumas

Publisher

Createspace

Language

French

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x0.5 cm

Weight

0.14 kg.

ISBN13

9781505363821

Synopsis "Jane (in French)"

L'histoire se passe en 1812. Un jeune lieutenant, Elim Melosor, second à bord du bateau russe Le Vladimir à l'époque des guerres napoléoniennes, assiste au naufrage d'un navire au large de la Hollande, pays ennemi. Accompagné de cinq marins, il tente de sauver les sinistrés. Ils ne peuvent y arriver; leur chaloupe est détruite et les marins sont rejetés sur les côtes de Hollande. Ils se réfugient dans un moulin, juste au bon moment pour sauver les occupants, attaqués par des bandits. Les Van Naarvaersen, cette famille de riches commerçants hollandais qui, reconnaissante, recueille les naufragés, sont heureusement amis de la Russie. On décide de cacher les marins et de présenter le lieutenant comme un neveu venu d'Allemagne, jusqu'à ce que l'on trouve un moyen de leur permettre de retourner à bord de leur bateau. Les sympathiques parents ont une jeune fille de 16 ans, Jane. Le beau lieutenant en devient amoureux et les jours s'écoulent rapidement, emplis de promesses éternelles...

Alejandro Dumas

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Alexandre Dumas is one of the most prolific and popular authors from France. He was born in 1802 in the city of Villers-Cotterets, and soon moved to Paris to work as a secretary for the Duke of Orléans. There, he completed his education on his own and began to take an interest in writing.
He started by writing plays, and then moved on to poems and long stories. However, his real success did not come until 1844, the year he released the work that would catapult him to fame: The Three Musketeers. The serial publication of this novel brought him a huge sum of money, but it also meant countless hours of work, many collaborators, and the production of up to eighty installments to meet the growing public demand.
After the publication of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, Dumas amassed a great fortune. However, his hedonistic nature led him to squander all he had earned and he soon found himself forced to exile in Belgium to escape his French creditors.
The Count of Monte Cristo, the pinnacle of the author's narrative, is considered one of the greatest adventure novels of all time.

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