The Last Cavalier by Alexandre Dumas (28 CDs)

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Subtitle: Being the Adventures of Count Sainte-Hermine in the Age of Napoleon

The discovery of Dumas’s last, incomplete novel, lost and completely unknown to historians for more than a century, was a literary bombshell. The Last Cavalier is Dumas’s swan song, a rousing adventure that completes his epic retelling of French history from the Renaissance (La Reine Margot) to his present day (The Count of Monte Cristo) by filling in that one vital, dramatic era that was missing: the Age of Napoleon.

A tale of family honor and heroic derring-do, The Last Cavalier follows the fortunes of young Hector, Count de Sainte-Hermine, who has sworn an oath to avenge his Royalist family members’ deaths by fighting against Napoleon. When he is defeated, he is sentenced to serve as a common soldier in Napoleon’s imperial forces. Though he courts death fearlessly, Hector’s daring deeds will change his destiny, and Napoleon’s.

REVIEWS

“It’s absolutely wonderful. I finished The Last Cavalier in a day. These 800 pages almost turn themselves. Alexandre Dumas remains, now as ever, the Napoleon of storytellers.” - Washington Post, a Top Ten Book for 2007

“The Last Cavalier is a lost treasure. The spirit of Monte-Cristo rides again.” - New York Review of Books

“The Last Cavalier reads like a Dumas classic. James Bond, Indiana Jones, and many others owe a deep debt to Dumas, who stuffs his tales with thrilling exploits and exotic locales. No one with a pulse will be able to resist Dumas' lost classic.” - Christian Science Monitor

“A hit from the vaults: Dumas pere's final work—a grand tale of adventure. A big book, and a pleasure for anyone who thrills at the likes of D'Artagnan and company.” - Kirkus Reviews

“Vintage Dumas….enough adventure and intrigue to satisfy the most demanding reader.” - Library Journal

“[A] stunning completion to his fictional mapping of French history….It’s Dumas at his best….an intensely personal vision of the time.”- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Dumas deserves to be read alongside Dickens and Tolstoy as an influential, enduring writer! The Last Cavalier is pure, distilled Dumas in its conception, its obsessions and in its art.” - Glasgow Herald

“Wonderfully vivid and intelligent! I am delighted it has been rediscovered, and delighted to find that so much of Dumas's magic still exerts it spell in this work from his last years.” - Scotsman

“Reviews have been unanimous in praising The Last Cavalier: The novel is a reminder that readers are always willing to make time for epic storytelling when the narrative is in the hands of a master.”- Los Angeles Times

 ALEXANDRE DUMAS (1902-1870) is best remembered for his novels The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, and The Man in the Iron Mask. These books have sold millions of copies worldwide.