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A 3-Minute Prop To The Incredible Decade of Alexandre Dumas

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" Time will pass away, Time will guard our secret. I'll return again To fight another day." ~ Wishbone Ash ~ I just finished the entire Dumas saga of " The Three Musketeers" ... and it was worth every page-turning paper cut.  Really good stuff. If you think unabridged "...Monte Cristo" is a hefty volume,  ( and it is. B een there, read that) try fencing with the five novels that comprise this masterpiece.  In other words...if you plan on reading them all at once, better double sack the swashbuckling shit out of'em.   These are the books: 1.   "The Three Musketeers" - (1844 / 700 pages) 2.   "Twenty Years After" - (1845 / 800 pages) 3.   "The Vicomte de Bragelonne" - (1847 / 750 pages) 4.   "Louise de la Valliere" - (1848 / 750 pages) 5.   "The Man In The Iron Mask" - (1849 / 500 pages) There must have been sparks flying off Dumas' pen in the 1840s, because he churned out every o