La Reine Margot, Alexandre Dumas
La Reine Margot, Alexandre Dumas
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La Reine Margot

Author: Alexandre Dumas, David Coward

Narrator: John Lee

Unabridged: 17 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/10/2021

Synopsis

La Reine Margot is a novel of suspense and drama which recreates the violent world of intrigue, murder, and duplicity of the French Renaissance. Dumas fills his canvas with a gallery of unforgettable characters, unremitting action, and the engaging generosity of spirit which has made him one of the world’s greatest and best-loved storytellers.

About Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870), French novelist and playwright, was one of the most famous and prolific French writers of the nineteenth century, producing some 250 books. He is best known for his historical novels The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, and he was among the first authors to fully exploit the possibilities of the serial novel. He is credited with revitalizing the historical novel in France. His riveting, fast-paced adventure tales that blend history and fiction have been adapted into nearly 200 films. His last unfinished last novel, The Last Cavalier,  lost to historians for 125 years, was completed in 2005 and quickly became a best seller.

About John Lee

John Lee is the winner of numerous Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration. He has twice won acclaim as AudioFile’s Best Voice in Fiction & Classics. He also narrates video games, does voice-over work, and writes plays.

About David Coward

David Coward is professor emeritus of French at the University of Leeds and a translator of many books from the French, including Albert Cohen’s Belle du Seigneur, for which he was awarded a Scott Moncrieff Prize.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Manny on June 26, 2009

If you're one of those people who lick their finger before turning over the page, I strongly recommend that you don't read this book. Particularly if you're on the paranoid side.......more

Goodreads review by Jesús on January 27, 2021

Empecé con muchas expectativas a leer "La Reina Margot" y creo que las colmó ampliamente. La historia narra uno de los temas más recordados en Francia, las Guerras de Religión entre protestantes y católicos. Reina en Francia Carlos IX quien a su vez es manipulado por su corte, principalmente por su te......more

Goodreads review by Simona on February 17, 2021

"Vedremo se della regina Margot sarà tanto facile fare una monaca." "We shall see if they can make Queen Margot into a nun so easily." Betrayals. Broken hearts. Conspiracies. A marriage sealed by ambition instead of love. Queens with too big a heart and queens with no heart at all. True sentiments tha......more

Goodreads review by Alexandra on March 23, 2023

Coming back to Dumas as an adult is a very interesting experience. Just so that you know where I am coming from: as a preteen/teenager I was reading any Dumas novel I could get my hands on and I’ve lost count of how many times I’d reread The Three Musketeers. This book has everything that Dumas excel......more

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