Name: The Companions of Jehu
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Author: Alejandro Dumas
ISBN: 9781483705835

Type

Physical Book

Author

Alejandro Dumas

Publisher

Bottom of the Hill Publishing

Language

English

Pages

348

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.5 x 19.1 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.60 kg.

ISBN13

9781483705835

Synopsis "The Companions of Jehu"

The Companions of Jehu was inspired by a story in Charles Nodier's Souvenirs de la Revolution of four young highwaymen who fought their way out of a prison to avoid the guillotine. Dumas weaves a romantic tale involving Roland, Sir John, and the Companions of Jehu, a band of aristocratic royalists, robbing government diligences in support their righteous cause. Alexandre Dumas was a French writer whose works have been translated into nearly 100 languages. His historical novels include The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, The Corsican Brothers, and The Man in the Iron Mask.

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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