: Alexandre Dumas
: Martin Guerre
: Seltzer Books
: 9781455410149
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Classic story from the multi-volume collection 'Celebrated Crimes'. Based on an historical incident, this story served as the basis for two great movies: Le Retour de Martin Guerre starring Gerard Depardieu, and Sommersby starring Jody Foster and Richard Gere. According to Wikipedia: 'Martin Guerre, a French peasant of the 16th century, was at the center of a famous case of imposture. Several years after the man had left his wife, child, and village, a man claiming to be Guerre arrived. He lived with Guerre's wife and son for three years. The false Martin Guerre was tried, discovered to be a man named Arnaud du Tilh and executed. The real Martin Guerre had returned during the trial. The case continues to be studied and dramatized to this day.'

MARTIN GUERRE BY  ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE


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Novels by Alexandre Dumas in English translation --

  • Marguerite de Valois
  • The Black Tulip
  • The Borgias
  • Celebrated Crimes (all 8 volumes)
  • The Companions of Jehu
  • The Conspirators
  • The Corsican Brothers
  • The Count of Monte Cristo
  • The Forty-Five Guardsmen
  • Martin Guerre
  • The Prussian Terror
  • The Queen's Necklace
  • The Three Musketeers, covering 1625-1628
  • Twenty Years After, covering 1648-1649
  • The Vicomte de Bragelonne, covering 1660
  • Ten Years Later, covering 1660-1661
  • Louise de la Valliere, covering 1661
  • The Man in the Iron Mask, covering 1661-1673

 

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from the multi-volume work Celebrated Crimes

 

We are sometimes astonished at the striking resemblance existing between two persons who are absolute strangers to each other, but in fact it is the opposite which ought to surprise us.  Indeed, why should we not rather admire a Creative Power so infinite in its variety that it never ceases to produce entirely different combinations with precisely the same elements?  The more one considers this prodigious versatility of form, the more overwhelming it appears.

 

To begin with, each nation has its own distinct and characteristic type, separating it from other races of men.  Thus there are the English, Spanish, German, or Slavonic types; again, in each nation we find families distinguished from each other by less general but still well-pronounced features; and lastly, the individuals of each family, differing again in more or less marked gradations.  What a multitude of physiognomies!  What variety of impression from the innumerable stamps of the human countenance!  What millions of models and no copies!&n