#The Club Dumas

[contremineur]

Then she leant over and kissed him very slowly, with infinite tenderness. As if she had had to wait an eternity to do so.

Arturo Pérez-Reverte, from The Club Dumas (Random House 1996)

[vsthepomegranate]

The Ninth Gate (1999)

by Roman Polanski

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

" One is never alone with a book nearby, don't you agree? Every page reminds us of a day that has passed and makes us relive the emotions that filled it. Happy hours underlined in red pencil, dark ones in black. ... "

- Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Club Dumas

[uwmspeccoll]

Milestone Monday

On this day, July 24 in 1802, French novelist and playwright Alexandre Dumas was born in Picardy, France. With the help of his father, a general and aristocrat, Dumas acquired writing work with Louis Philippe, Duke of Orléans, setting the stage in his career for early success. Dumas lived a decadent life that he allegedly often could not afford, and in turn traveled regularly, fleeing creditors and relations with whom he had fallen out of favor. He spent time in Spain, Italy, Germany, England, Belgium and Russia, before returning to France in 1864. Dumas’s journeys inspired the adventurous themes of his many books and plays and left a legacy of prolific publications including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Nutcracker, and The Black Tulip, along with several illegitimate children.  

Amongst Dumas’s most well-known works, The Three Musketeers stands out as a classic historical adventure novel that has been translated into nearly one hundred languages and multiple mediums. First published serially between March and July 1844, The Three Musketeers was written in collaboration with Auguste Maquet, and while inspired by a true encounter between three young Béarnese it is in a whole a work of fiction. This two-volume, 1932 Limited Editions Club production of The Three Musketeers was illustrated by Pierre Falké (1884-1947) with vibrantly dynamic hand-colored prints, designed and printed by A. A. M. Stols at the Halcyon Press in Maastricht, Holland, in an edition of 1500 copies signed by the illustrator.  

After a life of writing, Dumas died of natural causes in December 1870. He was buried at his birthplace but was later re-interred at the infamous mausoleum of the Panthéon where his casket was carried in by Republican Guards costumed as the Musketeers. French President Jacques Chirac spoke at the re-interment doting on Dumas, “With you, we were D’Artagnan, Monte Cristo, or Balsamo, riding along the roads of France, touring battlefields, visiting palaces and castles-with you, we dream.”

-Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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[grownups-are-the-real-monsters]

Here are my Top 10 Stephen King books. (Not counting The Dark Tower series) This is subject to change but I think this is pretty locked? Though there were a few I'm sad didn't make the cut (like @ 'Revival'🥰😔).

1. IT

2. Dreamcatcher

3. The Long Walk

4. Cell

5. The Stand

6. Christine

7. Doctor Sleep

8. The Talisman

9. Salem's Lot

10. Duma Key

[jadedanddark]

I've been reading the Count of Monte Cristo lately

[earthiercurator]

Different levels of intrigue

[leer-reading-lire]

JOMP Book Photo Challenge || February || 12 || Can't Read In Public

[greekmythcomix]

Have spent this weekend mourning a great loss (GO2 hit hard) and realising that at the heart of my entire personality is a triumvirate of fictional booksellers:

[universalzone]

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Scarf Shawl Wrap 

The literary classic "The Count of Monte Cristo" (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by French author Alexandre Dumas first published in 1844. It centers on a man who is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes from jail, acquires a fortune, and sets about exacting revenge on those responsible for his imprisonment. The Title page and the first Book page of the English version of this book are printed on a soft, beige-colored acrylic shawl.

[contremineur]

Arturo Pérez-Reverte, from The Club Dumas (Random House 1996)

[lunabeelight]

I'm currently listening to The Count of Monte Cristo. I know very little about the plot, save that it's a revenge story and that people on tumblr have described the book as "insane" and Dante as a "lunatic."

I'm all for it.

I've just finished chapter 5, just another 112 to go.

[crazybeardtale]

9th door

[grownups-are-the-real-monsters]

Y'all have six hours left to vote in Round 1 of the Stephen King ships battle on Twitter 🦇✨(Go vote for your favorites)

[minnie-themoocher]

some books we know jason has canonically read:

the entire works of jane austen, especially pride and prejudice (his fav so far as we can tell)

the works of alexander dumas

the works of sir arthur conan doyle

hamlet by william shakespeare

richard iii by william shakespeare

1984 by george orwell

little women by louisa may alcott

the prince by machiavelli

fight club by chuck palahniuk

the art of war by sun tzu

these are just the real ones btw; he’s also read at least 2 self-help books, some entirely fictional series, unspecified books on japanese history, the napoleonic wars, and 19th century england, and in-universe superman comics.

[kenobers]

✨Jason Todd's Bookshelf✨

i think it's so interesting to see what books Jason Todd would read/own, so here's my own contribution! some of these are canon* (hence the *), some are popular headcanons and some are my own speculation. i'll probably continue to add to this.

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas*

Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen*

1984 by George (Wh)Orwell*

The Prince by Machiavelli*

The Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle*

The Art of War by Sun Tzu*

Hamlet*

An additional complete works of William Shakespeare

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger

i think Holden Caulfield secretly reminds him of Bruce

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Metamorphosis and The Trial by Franz Kafka

specifically owns a copy that has both of them in there

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

this may be a bit on the nose, but Jason would love a good satire

The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Hayy ibn Yaqdhan by Ibu Tufail

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

but lowkey he hates it

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The Stranger by Albert Camus

The Iliad by Homer

The Outsiders by S.E Hinton

i don't see Jason as being a big fantasy/sci-fi guy unless it falls under the magical realism or gothic categories (i.e, Beloved, Frankenstein), however i do think he would jive with Ray Bradbury, Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett and (unfortunately) Harlan Ellison

i can also see him jiving with R.F Kuang and i think The Poppy War specifically would be an exception to his usual disinterest in fantasy

i think he maybe also has a stash of paperback Star Wars novels stashed away somewhere

if jason is a theatre kid into adulthood, i think he would be the kind that reads solely straight plays

Fat Ham by James Ijames

Complete Works of Arthur Miller

Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

he typically avoids stuff that’s so directly about mortality, but this play would really resonate with him and honestly be a healing read

being the hater that he is, he's also hate read at least one Collen Hoover book (and promptly left it in the Batcave to frame Bruce for the crime)