Alexandre Dumas
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Formats
Description
An innocent man, Edmond Dantes, is imprisoned for years on a godforsaken island while the friend who betrayed him takes Dantes ravishing fiance 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.
Series
Language
English
Description
Animated version of Alexandre Dumas' well-known novel that has the musketeers defending their queen from Cardinal Richelieu. The odds are stacked against the Musketeers as they take on the Cardinal's own private army, but they must aid the queen to ensure that the king remains in power.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The Three musketeers: The young ambitious Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris aspiring to join the Musketeers. He meets Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, and faces villains, romance, adventure, and intrigue. To save the honor of the Queen, he and the others set off on a perilous journey. In the end, he proves he is worthy, and joins the Musketeers like his friends.
The Four musketeers: Villainous Cardinal Richelieu continues his machinations to eliminate...
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]
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...
11) Queen Margot
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
Français
Description
Thrown into a political marriage of convenience by her ruthlessly power-hungry family, the beautiful Margot soon finds herself hopelessly drawn into their murderous affairs. It's then she realizes her only hope of escape lies somewhere between the heroic soldier who loves her and the enemy husband who could save her.
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.
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The beach: A young backpacker in Thailand searching for something different learns of the existence of an idyllic island which is not even on the map. Once he reaches the island, he discovers a secret commune of international drifters living off fish and pot. The man's arrival coincides with growing tension between factions, leading to the commune's violent demise.
The man in the iron mask: In 1638 Queen Anne of France gives Birth to a boy, who will...