The Last Cavalier by Alexandre Dumas

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This paperback is in Good Plus condition as only issue is minor edge wear and curling of lower front corner of cover. Otherwise no marks or damage. Very clean and tight. It’s sub title is ‘Being the Adventures of Count Sainte-Hermine in the Age of Napoleon’. This book was selected as a top ten book of the year by the Washington Post. Newly discovered, it is the last novel by the author of The Three Musketeers. It is rousing and big-spirited; it’s action sweeping across oceans and continents, it’s hero gloriously indomitable, the last novel by the author -lost for 125 years. It is the story of France from the Renaissance to the 19th century, as Dumas vibrantly retold in his numerous popular novels, has long been absent one vital, richly historical era: the age of Napoleon. But no longer. Now, dynamically, in a tale of family honour and undying vengeance of high adventure and heroic derring-do. $8