{"product_id":"9781681773667","title":"The Red Sphinx","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor the first time in English in over a century, a new translation of the forgotten sequel to Dumas’s \u003cem\u003eThe Three Musketeers\u003c\/em\u003e, continuing the dramatic tale of Cardinal Richelieu and his implacable enemies.\u003c\/p\u003e In 1844, Alexandre Dumas published \u003cem\u003eThe Three Musketeers\u003c\/em\u003e, a novel so famous and still so popular today that it scarcely needs introduction. Shortly thereafter he wrote a sequel, \u003cem\u003eTwenty Years After\u003c\/em\u003e, that resumed the adventures of his swashbuckling heroes.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Later, toward the end of his career, Dumas wrote \u003cem\u003eThe Red Sphinx\u003c\/em\u003e, another direct sequel to \u003cem\u003eThe Three Musketeers\u003c\/em\u003e that begins, not twenty years later, but a mere twenty days afterward. \u003cem\u003eThe Red Sphinx\u003c\/em\u003e picks up right where the \u003cem\u003eThe Three Musketeers\u003c\/em\u003e left off, continuing the stories of Cardinal Richelieu, Queen Anne, and King Louis XIII—and introducing a charming new hero, the Comte de Moret, a real historical figure from the period. A young cavalier newly arrived in Paris, Moret is an illegitimate son of the former king, and thus half-brother to King Louis. The French Court seethes with intrigue as king, queen, and cardinal all vie for power, and young Moret soon finds himself up to his handsome neck in conspiracy, danger—and passionate romance!\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Dumas wrote seventy-five chapters of \u003cem\u003eThe Red Sphinx\u003c\/em\u003e, all for serial publication, but he never quite finished it, and so the novel languished for almost a century before its first book publication in France in 1946. While Dumas never completed the book, he had earlier written a separate novella, The Dove, that recounted the final adventures of Moret and Cardinal Richelieu.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Now for the first time, in one cohesive narrative, \u003cem\u003eThe Red Sphinx\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Dove\u003c\/em\u003e make a complete and satisfying storyline—a rip-roaring novel of historical adventure, heretofore unknown to English-language readers, by the great Alexandre Dumas, king of the swashbucklers.","brand":"Pegasus Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47130948567280,"sku":"9781681773667","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781681773667_p0.jpg?v=1763695821","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781681773667","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}