Alexandre Dumas
42) The nutcracker
Author
Pub. Date
1976.
Language
English
Description
A little girl's devotion to her Christmas nutcracker is instrumental in breaking a spell imposed upon the nutcracker-prince by his enemies, the mice.
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
D'Artagnan is a naive and ambitious farm boy who yearns to join the Musketeers, the elite regiment of guards under King Louis XIII. Riding into 1625 Paris on the back of a weathered plowhorse, the young rapscallion quickly wins the respect and friendship of the Musketeers' most valiant trio in a breathtaking display of a acrobatic swordsmanship. When Queen Anne is maneuvered into a political scandal by the devious Cardinal Richelieu, D'Artagnan and...
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
Louis XIV of France has a twin brother, Philippe, who is as brave as the King is scurrilous. To raise money, the monarch plans to wed the Spanish Infanta, despite his continuing affair with the cunning Madame de la Valliere. In the meantime, D'Artagnan and the aging Musketeers are teaching Philippe the ways of chivalry. Soon, Louis has his twin arrested and imprisoned in the Bastille. But after the Musketeers free him, Philippe concocts a daring plot...
58) La traviata
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Italiano
Description
Directed by Franco Zeffirelli, starring Stefania Bonfadelli, Scott Piper and Renato Bruson. Conducted by Placido Domingo.
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
An innocent man, Edmond Dantes, is imprisoned for years on a godforsaken island while the friend who betrayed him takes Dantes ravishing fiancé for himself. Dantes eventually escapes, recovers a fortune in buried pirate treasure, transforms himself into the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo, and methodically goes about exacting his revenge.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
In seventeenth-century France, young D'Artagnan initially quarrels with, then befriends, three musketeers and joins them in trying to outwit the enemies of the king and queen. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
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