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    Quotes and Images from Celebrated Crimes
    Quotes and Images from Celebrated Crimes
    Quotes and Images from Celebrated Crimes
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    Quotes and Images from Celebrated Crimes

    By David Widger and Alexandre Dumas

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Quotes and Images from Celebrated Crimes - David Widger

      QUOTES AND IMAGES FROM DUMAS' CELEBRATED CRIMES

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Quotes and Images From Celebrated Crimes

      by Alexander Dumas, Pere; Edited and Arranged by David Widger

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Quotes and Images From Celebrated Crimes

                 Edited and Arranged by David Widger

      Author: Alexander Dumas, Pere

      Release Date: August 30, 2004 [EBook #7541]

      Last Updated: October 26, 2012

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DUMAS' CELEBRATED CRIMES ***

      Produced by David Widger

      CELEBRATED CRIMES

      By Alexandre Dumas (Pere)

      A good novelist needs be a good historian. Alexandre Dumas was a novelist who knew his history. At least in his early works, he was meticulous in his research. This series of books are histories which place most romantic novels in the shade; they cover many centuries and many lands—those concerning the Rennaissance Popes are especially intriguing.

      CONTENTS

      PASSAGES FROM EACH VOLUME

      NOTE

      Dumas's 'Celebrated Crimes' was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language—has minced no words—to describe the violent scenes of a violent time.

      INTRODUCTION

      The contents of these volumes of 'Celebrated Crimes', as well as the motives which led to their inception, are unique. They are a series of stories based upon historical records, from the pen of Alexandre Dumas, pere, when he was not the elder, nor yet the author of D'Artagnan or Monte Cristo, but was a rising young dramatist and a lion in the literary set and world of fashion.

      Dumas, in fact, wrote his 'Crimes Celebres' just prior to launching upon his wonderful series of historical novels, and they may therefore be

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