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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. The Sequel to The Three Musketeers, as presented in the following pages, will be found even still more interesting than the celebrated work of which it is a continuation. The chief actors in the tale, now of a more mature age, yet retaining all the vigour and freshness of their original characters, are found engaged in the more grave and serious political events of the age in which they lived; and having laid aside the freaks and follies of youth, they now appear under a different phasis, but one which, in the translator's opinion, will be found much more attractive. The work itself, too, is of a far higher grade than its predecessor: it is, in fact, a perfect historical romance; and the manners it delineates are true pictures of the times it represents. Low and debased as was our own national scale of morality in the seventeenth century, that of France was infinitely worse; and the profligate priest, and the fascinating but uuprincipled coquette, depicted in the characters of the Abbe d'Herblay and Madame de Chevreuse, are drawn from life. The French possess numerous Memoirs relating to all the persons of note, in every rank of life, and of every period. From these sources M. Dumas has drawn largely; and the facts he relates are doubtless genuine, however singular they may appear to us, in these our happier days of a purer morality. They must, therefore, be received as useful moral lessons, which are intended to instruct the mind, without being in the slightest degree either offensive or indelicate. The place so prominently occupied in The Three Musketeers by the famed Cardinal Richelieu, is, in the present work, filled by that ofhis celebrated successor, Cardinal Mazarin, whose character is portrayed with equal fidelity, and the most strict ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217412476 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217412475 |
| Weight | 1.04 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.72 In |
| List Price | $23.28 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 320 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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