Name: Catherine Blum (in French)
SKU: 60508673
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Author: Alejandro Dumas
ISBN: 9781530865000

Type

Physical Book

Author

Alejandro Dumas

Publisher

Createspace

Language

French

Pages

230

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x1.2 cm

Weight

0.31 kg.

ISBN13

9781530865000

Synopsis "Catherine Blum (in French)"

Nous sommes en mai 1829, dans la foret de Villers-Cotterets, sur les lieux de l'enfance de l'auteur. Guillaume Watrin, chef des gardes-chasse du duc d'Orleans, a de son epouse Marianne un fils, Bernard, garde-chasse lui aussi. Ils ont egalement eleve Catherine, fille de Rose Watrin, la s ur de Guillaume, et d'un prisonnier allemand blesse, Frederic Blum, qui fut recueilli par la famille en 1808. Catherine et Bernard s'aiment, d'abord comme frere et s ur, puis comme des amants. Mais Mathieu, enfant abandonne et recueilli par le couple Watrin, est ferocement envieux, et cherche a faire echouer le projet de mariage de Catherine et Bernard..."

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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