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FREE THE DUMAS CLUB PDF Arturo Perez-Reverte | 336 pages | 02 Jun 2011 | Vintage Publishing | 9780099448594 | English | London, United Kingdom THE CLUB DUMAS | Kirkus Reviews Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now. Javascript is not enabled in your browser. Enabling JavaScript in your browser will allow you to experience all the features of our site. Learn how to enable JavaScript The Dumas Club your browser. NOOK Book. A provocative literary thriller that playfully pays tribute to classic tales of mystery and adventure. Home 1 Books 2. Read an excerpt of this book! Add to Wishlist. Sign in to Purchase Instantly. Members save with free shipping everyday! See details. When a well-known bibliophile is found dead, leaving behind part of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas's The Three MusketeersCorso is brought in to authenticate the fragment. He is soon drawn into a swirling plot involving devil worship, occult practices, and swashbuckling derring-do among a cast of characters bearing a suspicious resemblance to those of Dumas's masterpiece. Aided by a mysterious beauty named for a Conan Doyle heroine, Corso travels from Madrid to Toledo The Dumas Club Paris on the killer's trail in this twisty intellectual The Dumas Club through the book world. About the Author. A retired war journalist, he lives in Madrid and is The Dumas Club member of the Royal Spanish Academy. Table of Contents I. The Man with the Scar 69 26 V. Remember 95 18 VI. Postuma Necat 24 IX. The Bookseller on the Rue Bonaparte 20 X. Number Three 31 XI. The Cellars of Meung 20 XV. Corso and Richelieu 23 XVI. A Device Worthy of a Gothic Novel Show More. Related Searches. The Fencing Master. 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The book The Dumas Club set in a world of antiquarian booksellers, echoing his previous work, The Flanders Panel. Corso encounters a host of intriguing characters on his journey of investigation, including devil worshippers, obsessed bibliophiles and a hypnotically enticing femme fatale. The Club Dumas is full of details ranging from the working habits of Alexandre Dumas to how one might forge a 17th-century text, as well as insight into demonology. Lucas Corso is a middle-aged book dealer with a reputation of doing anything—regardless of legality—for his privileged clientele. While in Madrid attempting to authenticate a previously unknown partial draft of The Three Musketeershe is summoned to Toledo by Varo Borja, a notoriously The Dumas Club and wealthy collector. Borja has obtained a copy of a legendary book, Of the Nine Doors of the Kingdom of Shadowswhose author was burned at the stake by the Inquisition. The book purportedly contains instructions for summoning the Devil. Only one copy of the The Dumas Club is supposed to have survived, but Borja claims three exist, two of which are elaborate forgeries. He hires Corso to compare the three copies and obtain the legitimate one by any means necessary. He promises to pay handsomely and cover all expenses. Corso The Dumas Club, but continues to research the partial Dumas draft. The widow of the draft's previous owner, Liana Taillefer, insists the draft is a fake, but offers to buy it from Corso. After several encounters, she attempts to seduce Corso to obtain the draft; when he succumbs to her charms but refuses to surrender the manuscript, she becomes his enemy. She imagines herself as Milady de Winterand uses a male associate whom Corso nicknames " Rochefort " to follow Corso and attempt to retrieve the manuscript by force. Corso confers with the Ceniza Brothers, book restoration experts with extensive knowledge of forgery. They give The Dumas Club basic knowledge to help him compare the copies of The Nine Doors. On his way to Lisbon to visit the owner of one of the copies, he encounters a beautiful blonde with striking green eyes. She identifies herself as " Irene Adler ", and suggests that she is a fallen angel. They part company before he meets with Victor Fargas. Fargas is a renowned collector who has been selling off his extensive library to maintain The Dumas Club ancestral mansion. Corso compares Fargas' copy of The Nine Doors to Borja's, and finds subtle differences in the illustration plates. The Dumas Club bear The Dumas Club initials of the book's notorious author, but some of the plates bear the initials "L. As Corso returns to his hotel, "Irene" guards Corso against an attack by "Rochefort". Corso leaves her to arrange a robbery of Fargas' mansion to obtain his copy of the book. She and Corso leave for Paris. Corso confers with Replinger, an antiquarian and Dumas scholar, who authenticates the Dumas manuscript. As they The Dumas Club, Corso spies Liana. He returns to his hotel and bribes the concierge to locate The Dumas Club hotel. Corso visits Baroness Ungern, whose charitable institution possesses the largest occult collection in Europe, The Dumas Club the third copy of The Nine Doors. The Dumas Club flirt and discuss the book's author before she will let him examine her copy. The Baroness translates the illustration captions while Corso compares Ungern's copy to Borja's. Later, Corso realizes that, while none of the three sets match each other, the plates bearing the initials "L. Using the concierge's information, Corso confronts Liana and her associate, but "Rochefort" renders him unconscious. When he revives, Borja's copy and the Dumas manuscript are gone. He learns that the Baroness has been killed in a fire at her library. Using Liana's obsession with Milady de Winter, he traces her to Meung The Dumas Club, where he is captured by "Rochefort". Corso is astonished to find that they only want to see the Dumas manuscript, and know nothing about The Nine Doors. He is invited to stay for the party, but chooses to leave. Corso returns to Spain to confront Borja. Corso does not question this, and finds himself even more strongly attracted to her. He accuses Borja of being responsible for both murders. Borja, intending to use the legitimate copy of The Nine Doors to summon the Devil and gain ultimate knowledge, has destroyed his entire library to prevent others from following his The Dumas Club. Corso demands payment, but Borja ignores him and begins the ritual. Corso, who notices that one of the plates that Borja is using is a forgery, leaves in disgust. He hears Borja's screams of anguish as the ritual goes awry, and surmises that each of them will get the devil they deserve. The Club Dumas references many books. Several of the references are not The Dumas Club a work itself, but to a singular instance of the physical book, such as a rare edition or type of binding. Several of these books are inventions of Perez-Reverte. Occultist works published by Aristide Torchia in Venice:. Aristide Torchia, the fictional author from the novel, has been referred to in other media including The Ninth Gate a film based on the noveland video game Max Payne. Torchia was born in He was apprenticed in The Dumas Club under the Elzevir family. After returning to Venice he The Dumas Club small works on philosophical and esoteric themes. The Inquisition condemned Torchia for magic and witchcraft and burned him at the stake in While following the same basic plotline for the first two-thirds of the film, the finale is significantly altered in the movie. Several characters' roles diminish, expand, merge, swap or disappear completely, and one of the novel's most important subplots - the Dumas connection - is removed entirely.

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