Alexandre Dumas is a world-renowned writer and the author of many gripping historical novels. Rapidly unfolding events, unexpected plot twists, court intrigues, unscrupulous power struggles, love, and hatred—all of this awaits the reader in the novel "The Forty-Five," which focuses on the Huguenot Wars of the late 16th century. King Henry III of France is in mortal danger. The power-hungry Guises hire an entire army of assassins, and only the forty-five bodyguards loyal to the King are still capable of saving the throne from a bloody crime… The book features illustrations by 19th-century French artists Jean-Adolphe Beaucé, Edouard Coppin, and Alphonse de Neuville, and the American artist Frank T. Merrill.
Author: Alexandre Dumas
Translation: Nadezhda Rykova, Anna Kulisher
Pages: 800 (offset paper). Hardcover
Dimensions: 216x145x40 mm
Series: Foreign Literature. Big Books
