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The Red Sphinx, or, The Comte de Moret

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Red Sphinx picks up right where the The Three Musketeers left off, continuing the stories of Cardinal Richelieu, Queen Anne, and King Louis XIII 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 ill...

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Main Author: Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870 (Author)
Other Authors: Ellsworth, Lawrence (Editor, Translator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
French
Published: New York, NY : Pegasus Books, 2017.
Edition:First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Cardinals > Fiction.
Swordsmen > Fiction.
Courts and courtiers > Fiction.
France > History > Louis XIII, 1610-1643 > Fiction.
Historical fiction > France.
Action and adventure fiction > France.
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Summary:Red Sphinx picks up right where the The Three Musketeers left off, continuing the stories of Cardinal Richelieu, Queen Anne, and King Louis XIII 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, danger, 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 storyline, a rip-roaring novel of historical adventure.
Item Description:"A sequel to 'The Three Musketeers.'"
First published as a serial in the Parisian weekly Les nouvelles, October 17, 1865, to March 23, 1866.
Contains the novella entitled 'The Dove,' that was written as the first "sequel" to 'The Red Sphinx' which recounted the final adventures of Moret and Cardinal Richelieu.
Physical Description:xv, 807 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN:9781681772974
1681772973
Author Notes:After an idle youth, Alexandre Dumas went to Paris and spent some years writing. A volume of short stories and some farces were his only productions until 1927, when his play Henri III (1829) became a success and made him famous. It was as a storyteller rather than a playwright, however, that Dumas gained enduring success. Perhaps the most broadly popular of French romantic novelists, Dumas published some 1,200 volumes during his lifetime. These were not all written by him, however, but were the works of a body of collaborators known as "Dumas & Co." Some of his best works were plagiarized. For example, The Three Musketeers (1844) was taken from the Memoirs of Artagnan by an eighteenth-century writer, and The Count of Monte Cristo (1845) from Penchet's A Diamond and a Vengeance. At the end of his life, drained of money and sapped by his work, Dumas left Paris and went to live at his son's villa, where he remained until his death.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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