Name: Othon l'archer (in French)
SKU: 57908175
Price: 19.84 EUR
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Author: Alejandro Dumas
ISBN: 9781505339734

Type

Physical Book

Author

Alejandro Dumas

Publisher

Createspace

Language

French

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x0.5 cm

Weight

0.14 kg.

ISBN13

9781505339734

Synopsis "Othon l'archer (in French)"

De retour de guerre, le comte Karl de Hombourg arrive au château de Godesberg pour embrasser son frère d'armes le comte Ludwig, landgrave de Godesberg. Il surprend son vieil ami en proie à un horrible soupçon: Othon est-il bien son fils légitime ou est-il le fruit des amours de sa femme Emma et d'Albert avec qui elle a été élevée et à qui elle voue une grande tendresse? Godefroy, cousin de Ludwig, nourrit la suspicion dans l'esprit de ce dernier, qui décide d'enfermer Emma dans un couvent et d'envoyer Othon au monastère. Lorsqu'il apprend la sévère décision de son ami, le comte Karl provoque Godefroy en duel. Il le blesse à mort et un prêtre entend la confession du moribond qu'il rapporte à Ludwig: Albert est le frère adultérin d'Emma...

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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