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Liviu_5 · 09-19-2007, 10:23 PM

The famous last novel - sadly unfinished but still at a 750 page count with an outline of the ending in the preface - is finally available in English after its original publication in 2005 in France.

The French editor Claude Schopp found the book by accident around 1990 and then worked for 15 years to edit it- since it was published only as a serial and was pretty unedited due the circumstances of Dumas' death - he died at Dieppe in late 1870, 4 days before the city was conquered by the Germans, so his last will and other papers were buried at first...

I got both the original French edition and the US one, and it's a great book tying up the events of The Whites and The Blues and Jehu's Companions, "solving" the mystery of Nelson's death at Trafalgar...

Pegasus books presents:

The Last Cavalier: Being the Adventures of Count Sainte-hermine in the Age of Napoleon

09-19-2007, 10:23 PM	#1
Liviu_5 Books and more books Posts: 917 Karma: 69499 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: White Plains, NY, USA Device: Nook Color, Itouch, Nokia770, Sony 650, Sony 700(dead), Ebk(given)	Last Dumas novel finally available in English though only print right now The famous last novel - sadly unfinished but still at a 750 page count with an outline of the ending in the preface - is finally available in English after its original publication in 2005 in France. The French editor Claude Schopp found the book by accident around 1990 and then worked for 15 years to edit it- since it was published only as a serial and was pretty unedited due the circumstances of Dumas' death - he died at Dieppe in late 1870, 4 days before the city was conquered by the Germans, so his last will and other papers were buried at first... I got both the original French edition and the US one, and it's a great book tying up the events of The Whites and The Blues and Jehu's Companions, "solving" the mystery of Nelson's death at Trafalgar... Pegasus books presents: The Last Cavalier: Being the Adventures of Count Sainte-hermine in the Age of Napoleon