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  • Rekindling the Christian Flame
    ANDREW J DUMAS
    In today’s world, many of us have forgotten the vital role that God can play in our lives. We may have walked away from the Christian church, often for good reasons. Yet as we journey through life’s struggles, God continues to whisper to us, 'You are not alone'.Alas, God does not wave a magic wand to fix all our problems, but God longs to draw closer and remind us, 'I am with y...
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    12,04 €

  • The Musketeers--Twenty Years Later
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock / Frank JMorlock
    Twenty years after the events of The Three Musketeers, the intrepid quartet--Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and D’Artagnan--return in an attempt to save King Charles I from the axe of General Oliver Cromwell. But Cromwell is being helped by Mordaunt, son of Milady de Winter (whom the Musketeers had executed twenty years before), and he uses his position as the General’s secretary to g...
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    18,47 €

  • The Last of the Three Musketeers; Or, the Prisoner of the Bastille
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock / Frank JMorlock
    Based on the riveting novel by Alexandre Dumas, Ten Years After, this is the bestselling author’s final account of The Three Musketeers and their young recruit, D’Artagnan. In 1661 young Louis XIV is King of France. The Musketeers find themselves divided: Aramis (now secret head of the Jesuit Order) wants to replace Louis with his hidden twin brother, The Man in the Iron Mask. ...
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    17,40 €

  • Wheres’ Waverly, Florida?
    Irene J. Dumas
    The small district of Waverly is one of the original districts of the producers of citrus products.Early history of Waverly tells of the times Rough and Ready, Zachary Taylor, the 12th President of the United States traveled through Waverly while chasing Seminole Indians throughout the wilderness of Florida during the 1830’s’The community was started by the Indians and the cros...
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    12,11 €

  • Century’s of War’s
    Irene J. Dumas / Irene JDumas
    In this book you will read a comprehensive history of wars as far back as the 1500’s to present day Iraq. This book not only talks about all wars the United States of America was active in, it includes wars two century’s before the US became a nation.Also, besides reading about the twelve wars that the United States troops took part in, the author comprised and has written ab...
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    16,28 €

  • Pegland and Starland
    J.M. Vignes-Dumas
    Sit back and enjoy a truly imaginative magical mystery tour with the occupants of Pegland and Starland, two beautiful islands in the South Pacific Ocean. Peg characters mix with rats, frogs and a Guardian Angel in a colourful cocktail which has some real Beatrix Potter resonances as reality and fantasy intertwine and humans, pegs, rats and frogs mingle together. Pegs they may b...
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    8,65 €

  • Pegland and Starland
    J.M. Vignes-Dumas
    Sit back and enjoy a truly imaginative magical mystery tour with the occupants of Pegland and Starland, two beautiful islands in the South Pacific Ocean. Peg characters mix with rats, frogs and a Guardian Angel in a colourful cocktail which has some real Beatrix Potter resonances as reality and fantasy intertwine and humans, pegs, rats and frogs mingle together. Pegs they may b...
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    18,28 €

  • International Short Stories - French
    Alexandre Dumas / Francis J. Reynolds / Francis JReynolds / Víctor Hugo
    This volume contains a collection of short stories by numerous notable French authors, including Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Honore de Balzac, Francois Coppee, Guy de Maupassant, Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire, and others. This fantastic, English-language anthology is highly recommended for those with an interest in French literature, and it would make for a worthy additio...
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    36,45 €

  • Confronting Corruption, Building Accountability
    J. Wedel / L. Dumas
    The crisis that nearly brought the world’s financial house down in 2008 demonstrated clearly that the global economy cannot work where there is widespread deception, corruption and lack of accountability. Corruption and lack of accountability are also key reasons why international development assistance so often fails to deliver on its promise. ...
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    48,19 €

  • A Salute To Our Veterans
    Irene J. Dumas / Irene JDumas
    A Salute to Our Veterans - Vignettes of the 'CAN DO' Seabees takes the reader into the immensely intriguing would of the U.S. Navy’s Construction Battalions. Deriving their name from the abbreviation of the term 'Construction Battalion,' the Seabees have a proud tradition of building roads, airfields, bases and other military facilities under combat conditions, often on real...
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    19,87 €

  • A Salute to Our Veterans
    Irene J. Dumas / Irene JDumas
    A Salute To Our Veterans is about war stories never told before, compiled and documented from 35 United States Military Veterans that served in the military during World War One, World War Two, the Koren War, the Vietnam War, and the Gulf War. They also served during the Cuban Crises, Grenada Crises, Desert Storm and Desert Shield, in Lebanon, Afghanistan and the Iraq War, etc....
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    15,33 €

  • Bathilda
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock
    Adapted by Alexandre Dumas from a script by Auguste Maquet, BATHILDA tells the story of a woman who’s raped by Marcel, and becomes his lover for a time. After she leaves him and moves to Paris, she meets Deworde, her deceased spouse’s nephew, and plans to marry him. But Marcel pursues her, determined that if he can’t have her, no one else will either. He plays a cat-and-mouse g...
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    16,69 €

  • Kean
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock
    This Alexandre Dumas drama, penned just three years after the death of the great English Shakespearean actor, Edmund Kean (1787-1833), is filled with an immense joie de vivre, and is perhaps based on the playwright’s own character. Kean, although an acknowledged player of great power and genius, led a very disordered personal life, associating with the lowlifes of the time, goi...
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    16,44 €

  • The Mad Marquis
    Alexandre Dumas / Emmanuel Theaulon / Frank J. Morlock
    Written in 1836, this collaborative play is based on a real-life incident, using the actual names of the principals involved. The young Marquis de Brunoy is snubbed at the French Royal Court of Versailles because his father, a financier, had been ennobled for his great wealth. After having to fight several duels to defend his honor, the Marquis strikes back by disregarding his ...
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    19,07 €

  • Queen Margot
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock
    Written in 1847, while Dumas was at the height of his powers, this play recounts the events leading up to the Saint Bartholomew’s Day massacre of the French Huguenots--and the subsequent death of King Charles IX. The playwright focuses on the people inadvertently caught up in the slaughter--which, once started, cannot be repressed. By following the fate of two nobles, the Catho...
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    22,05 €

  • The Mohicans of Paris
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock
    Written in 1864 and based on Dumas’s sprawing novel of the same name, this play is a tale of murder and ruthless ambition spread through many levels of French society. As a young girl, Leonie barely escapes being killed by her greedy uncle, though her young brother is not so fortunate. With the two children being so conveniently dead, the uncle inherits his deceased brother’s v...
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    21,05 €

  • The Tower of Death
    Alexandre Dumas / Frederic Gaillardet / Frank J. Morlock / Frank JMorlock
    Tour de Nesle (The Tower of Death) is one of Alexandre Dumas’s greatest and most powerful plays, a tale of power and conviction, although its historical accuracy is far from certain. Queen Marguerite and her sisters entertain themselves by luring unsuspecting men to the Tower, which located across the Seine from the Louvre. There they entice their victims to join them for wild ...
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    16,56 €

  • The Two Dianas; Or, Martin Guerre
    Alexandre Dumas / Paul Meurice / Frank J. Morlock
    In mid-1500s France, Martin Guerre is determined to free his father, the Comte de Montgomery, from an unjust prison sentence. Montgomery had dared to love the King’s mistress, Diana de Poitiers; to prevent King Henry II from discovering her indiscretion, Poitiers had arranged to have Montgomery put away for life, under conditions where no one is allowed to speak to him--and no ...
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    16,49 €

  • The Women’s War
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock
    This forgotten masterpiece, based on the Dumas novel of the same name, is set during the period following The Three Musketeers. The author skillfully depicts the confusion and brutality of the burgeoning civil war between the French Court, represented by Cardinal Mazarin (the Prime Minister) and Queen Anne of Austria (the Regent) on one side, and the wives of the princes revolt...
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    21,53 €

  • The Barricade at Clichy; Or, the Fall of Napoleon
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock
    This powerful play deals with the aftermath of French Emperor Napoleon’s disastrous retreat from Russia in 1812, and the subsequent victory of the allied forces arrayed against him in 1814--a defeat that forced Napoleon into exile on the island of Elba. From Elba he returned to France for 'The Hundred Days' revival of his monarchy in 1815, before finally being exiled to the Sou...
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    18,50 €

  • The Corsican Brothers
    Alexandre Dumas / Eugene Grange / Frank J. Morlock
    This adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas tale tells the story of two brothers, born as Siamese twins, but separated not long after birth. They’re raised by two different families, but are still able to 'feel' the emotions of the other, even at a distance. On the island of Corsica they become entwined in the long-running feud between the Orlandi and the Colonnas--a dispute that ha...
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    16,61 €

  • Lorenzino
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock
    This powerful, eloquent play moves like a Greek tragedy to its inevitable conclusion. Dumas’s drama is based on an actual event--the assassination of Duke Alexander of Medici in 1537 by his cousin, Lorenzo. Lorenzino lures his relative to a trap under the pretext of providing him with a woman. He gets close to the Duke by pandering to his lusts, just so that he’ll have the oppo...
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    16,58 €

  • The Venetian
    Alexandre Dumas / Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois / Frank J. Morlock
    To save his father from execution for treason, the Bravo Giovanni agrees to act as an assassin for The Council of Ten, and ruthlessly carries out their orders for targeted killings against real or imagined enemies of the Serene Republic of Venice in Italy. Inevitably, the Council members begin using the Bravo for their own purposes. When the Count de Bellamonte lusts after a he...
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    16,58 €

  • Caligula
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock
    Written in 1837, Caligula is one of the best nineteenth-century plays set in ancient Rome. The story of the mad, tyrannical Emperor Caligula, who reigned four years before being assassinated, is familiar to modern readers and viewers, but this version includes some new twists. Dumas makes Caligula less frightening than in real life, although he certainly qualifies as a villaino...
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    16,53 €

  • Sylvandire
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock
    In 1844-45, while Alexandre Dumas was working on his two classic novels, The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, he found time to write a play called Sylvandire. A young provincial, Roger Tancred d’Anguilem, arrives in Paris to fight a legal battle for a huge inheritance. His opponent is an Indian called Afghano, who has bribed the judges. The case appears lost unti...
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    16,54 €

  • The Widow’s Husband and Porthos in Search of an Outfit - Two Alexandre Dumas Comedies
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock
    Here are two short one-act comedies, one written by Alexandre Dumas and one inspired by him. 'The Widow’s Husband' was Dumas’s first venture into comedy. It’s about a woman whose husband hides himself overseas, leading their friends and family to believe that he’s dead. When he returns to France, he finds his 'widow' getting way too much attention from would-be suitors. But thi...
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    16,45 €

  • Young Louis XIV
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock
    Young Louis XIV (La Jeunesse de Louis XIV) is generally considered by critics to be one of Dumas’s best plays. This joyous romp through history focuses on Louis’s seizure of power in 1658, and his romance with Marie de Mancini under the oak tree. As a portrait of a young king on the verge of greatness, there’s nothing else like it except for Shakespeare’s trilogy about Prince H...
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    18,99 €

  • A Fairy Tale
    Adolphe De Leuven / Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock
    If ever a scorned woman gets her revenge on a man, the Marquise is a model of the type! She cleverly forces him to marry her (for her fortune, of course!), and then gets him framed for murdering her. And, in the end, she comes to his rescue, nimbly extricating him from the trap she’s prepared for him. You don’t want to cross this lady! A Fairy Tale (Un Conte de fées) was one of...
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    16,61 €

  • La Muger De Un Jugador...
    Alexandre Dumas / D.J.C.
    La Muger De Un Jugador..., by Alexandre Dumas, translated by D.J.C., is a captivating historical fiction work originally written in Spanish. This classic novel delves into themes of love, betrayal, and societal expectations, set against a rich historical backdrop. Dumas’s storytelling prowess shines through in this narrative, offering readers a glimpse into a bygone era filled ...
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    27,03 €

  • Discours et éloges académiques
    J-B 1800-1884 Dumas
    Discours et éloges académiques is a collection of speeches and eulogies by Jean-Baptiste Dumas, a prominent French chemist and politician of the 19th century. This volume offers insights into the intellectual and political landscape of France during a period of significant scientific advancement and social change. Dumas’s eloquence and deep understanding of scientific principle...
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    27,03 €


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