The Red Sphinx: A Sequel to The Three Musketeers

The Red Sphinx: A Sequel to The Three Musketeers

For the first time in English in over a century, a new translation of the forgotten sequel to Dumasâ€™s The Three Musketeers, continuing the dramatic tale of Cardinal Richelieu and his implacable enemies.

In 1844, Alexandre Dumas published The Three Musketeers, a novel so famous and still so popular today that it scarcely needs introduction. Shortly thereafter he wrote a sequel, Twenty Years After, that resumed the adventures of his swashbuckling heroes.

Later, toward the end of his career, Dumas wrote The Red Sphinx, another direct sequel to The Three Musketeers that begins, not twenty years later, but a mere twenty days afterward. The Red Sphinx picks up right where the The Three Musketeers left off, continuing the stories of Cardinal Richelieu, Queen Anne, and King Louis XIIIâ€”and introducing a charming new hero, the Comte de Moret, a real historical figure from the period. A young cavalier newly arrived in Paris, Moret is an illegitimate son of the former king, and thus half-brother to King Louis. The French Court seethes with intrigue as king, queen, and cardinal all vie for power, and young Moret soon finds himself up to his handsome neck in conspiracy, dangerâ€”and passionate romance!

Dumas wrote seventy-five chapters of The Red Sphinx, all for serial publication, but he never quite finished it, and so the novel languished for almost a century before its first book publication in France in 1946. While Dumas never completed the book, he had earlier written a separate novella, The Dove, that recounted the final adventures of Moret and Cardinal Richelieu.

Now for the first time, in one cohesive narrative, The Red Sphinx and The Dove make a complete and satisfying storylineâ€”a rip-roaring novel of historical adventure, heretofore unknown to English-language readers, by the great Alexandre Dumas, king of the swashbucklers.

Country	USA
Author	Alexandre Dumas
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	Reprint
EISBN	9781681773667
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Pegasus Books
Manufacturer	Pegasus Books
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	808
PublicationDate	2017-01-03
Publisher	Pegasus Books
ReleaseDate	2017-01-03
Studio	Pegasus Books

The Red Sphinx: A Sequel to The Three Musketeers

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