13 Bücher ähnlich wie Die drei Musketiere
Zwanzig Jahre später
Two decades have passed since the musketeers triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady. Time has weakened their resolve, and dispersed their loyalties. But treasons and strategems still cry out for justice: civil war endangers the throne of France, and in England, Cromwell threatens to send Charles I to the scaffold. The quartet of musketeers come out of retirement to cross swords with time,…
Gemeinsame Themen: Swordsmen, Historia, Histoire, Historical Fiction
Der Vicomte von Bragelonne oder: Zehn Jahre später
In the months of March-July in 1844, in the magazine Le Siecle, the first portion of a story appeared, penned by the celebrated playwright Alexandre Dumas. It was based, he claimed, on some manuscripts he had found a year earlier in the Bibliotheque Nationale while researching a history he planned to write on Louis XIV. They chronicled the adventures of a young man named D'Artagnan who, upon…
Gemeinsame Themen: Histoire, Historical Fiction, Adventure, History
Scaramouche
Idealism can be transferred from one person to another on a vehicle called revenge.
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Scaramouche tells the story of a young lawyer during the French Revolution. In the course of his adventures he becomes an actor portraying "Scaramouche" (a roguish buffoon character in the commedia dell'arte). He also becomes a revolutionary, politician, and fencing-master, confounding his…
Gemeinsame Themen: France in fiction, Historia, Adventure, History
Whirlwind
A whirlwind is a phenomenon in which a vortex of wind (a vertically oriented rotating column of air) forms due to instabilities and turbulence created by heating and flow (current) gradients. Whirlwinds can vary in size and last from a few minutes to a few hours.
Gemeinsame Themen: Adventure fiction, Historical Fiction, Adventure, History
Der Graf von Monte Cristo. Teil 1 und 2 (dreibändige Ausgabe)
„Sbohem, všechny city, které povznášejí srdce! Zastupoval jsem Prozřetelnost, abych odměnil dobré. Teď ať mi postoupísvé místo Bůh mstitel, abych potrestal zlé!"
Je rok 1815. Lodní důstojník Edmond Dantès se chystá oženit s krásnou Mercedes. Intriky závistivého účetního Danglarse a žárlivost soka v lásce Fernanda způsobí, že Dantès je zatčen coby nepřítel státu. Náměstek prokurátora Villefort ho…
Gemeinsame Themen: France in fiction, Historical Fiction, Adventure, History
Salammbô
Salammbô (1862) is a historical novel by Gustave Flaubert.[1] It is set in Carthage during the 3rd century BC,[1] immediately before and during the Mercenary Revolt which took place shortly after the First Punic War.
After the First Punic War, Carthage is unable to fulfil promises made to its army of mercenaries, and finds itself under attack. The fictional title character, a priestess and the…
Gemeinsame Themen: Historia, Histoire, Historical Fiction, History
Vater Goriot
SCOTT (copy 1): The Hédi Bouraoui Collection in Maghrebian and Franco-Ontario Literatures is the gift of University Professor Emeritus Hédi Bouraoui.
Gemeinsame Themen: France in fiction, History
Der letzte Mohikaner
The classic tale of Hawkeye—Natty Bumppo—the frontier scout who turned his back on "civilization," and his friendship with a Mohican warrior as they escort two sisters through the dangerous wilderness of Indian country in frontier America.
Gemeinsame Themen: Historia, Historical Fiction, Adventure, History
Montezumas Tochter
Fictionalized story of the first interactions between Native Americans and European explorers.
Gemeinsame Themen: Histoire, Historical Fiction, Adventure, History
Entführt
KIDNAPPED is an adventure story that has become the model for any thriller of escape and suspense.
Set in 1751, the flight of David Balfour and Alan Breck across the Highlands of Scotland is based on real events. Though he wrote the book to make money, while living as an invalid in Bournemouth. Stevenson was proud of it; he inscribed a presentation copy with the couplet. Here is the one sound…
Gemeinsame Themen: Adventure fiction, Historical Fiction, Adventure, History
Das Grenzreich
Wes Stone was a lawman—until the Sandlin gang gunned down his legendary father. Now, he's giving up his badge for vengeance...
Gemeinsame Themen: Historical Fiction
Manon Lescaut
Set in France and Louisiana in the early 18th century, the story follows the hero, the Chevalier des Grieux, and his lover, Manon Lescaut. Des Grieux comes from noble and landed family, but forfeits his hereditary wealth and incurs the disappointment of his father by running away with Manon. In Paris, the young lovers enjoy a blissful cohabitation, while Des Grieux struggles to satisfy Manon's…
Gemeinsame Themen: France in fiction, History
Wem die Stunde schlägt
High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young woman who has escaped from Franco's rebels.
Gemeinsame Themen: Historia, Historical Fiction, History