This work is called a 'romance,' because the incidents, characters, time, and scenery, are alike romantic. And in shaping this old tale, the Writer neither dares, nor desires, to claim for it the dignity or cumber it with the difficulty of an historic novel. more »

Living in the present days of peace and tranquillity it is difficult to picture the life of our ancestors in the days of King Alfred, when the whole country was for years overrun by hordes of pagan barbarians, who slaughtered, plundered, and destroyed at will. You may gain, perhaps, a fair conception ... more »

When the world was in its childhood, men looked upon the works of Nature with a strange kind of awe. They fancied that every thing upon the earth, in the air, or in the water, had a life like their own, and that every sight which they saw, and every sound which they heard, was caused by some intelligent ... more »

vous présente cinq romans d'Alexandre Dumas: 1. Joseph Balsamo: Mémoires d'un médecin 2. Le collier de la reine 3. Ange Pitou 4. La comtesse de Charny 5. Le chevalier de Maison Rouge Ils font tous partie de la série Marie Antoinette. more »

Set on the Titanic's sister ship the Olympic in 1911, in Andersonville prison during the Civil War, and in the heady days when the war just started, The Dead Line follows Nathaniel Garrison as he tracks one of the South's most successful spies. more »

vous présente cinq romans d'Alexandre Dumas: 1. Joseph Balsamo: Mémoires d'un médecin 2. Le collier de la reine 3. Ange Pitou 4. La comtesse de Charny 5. Le chevalier de Maison Rouge Ils font tous partie de la série Marie Antoinette. more »