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The Three Musketeers
MacMay, 2008
"The Three Musketeers" is the story of the young hot tempered country lad named D'Artagnan who leaves home to join his the Musketeers. D'Artagnan's father had been a musketeer. But in Paris despite being good with the sword D'Artagnan must prove himself before being offered a commission to the elite-fighting regiment. But then at last D'Artagnan is befriended by three musketeer's best soldiers, ...
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The Story of Siegfried
LeClue, 2008
Siegfried works as a sword maker. He makes a blade so sharp that he is able to kill the evil dragon Fafner. Siegfried knows the legend that bathing in the dragon's blood will make his skin invulnerable to sword or arrow. So he strips down and splashes in. But unknown to him at the time a single leaf has landed on his back. The skin under the leaf is untouched by the dragons' blood. Now all of ...
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Captain Blood
MacMay, 2007
Before becoming a pirate Captain Blood was an Irish physician convicted of treason for his part in the Monmouth Rebellion. Sentenced to be transported to the Caribbean and sold into slavery on the island of Barbados. When the Spanish attack the island Dr Blood escapes and starts an carrier as a pirate of the Caribbean.
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Rob Roy
LeClue, 2008
Rob Roy is a novel by Sir Walter Scott. It’s the story of a young English merchant named Frank Osbaldistone who goes to the Scottish Highlands to collect a debt stolen from his father. This is a very dangerous time as an outlaw clan known as the MacGregors live in the highlands. At this time it is illegal to have the name MacGregor. In the Highlands Frank meets a man named Rob Roy for whom ...
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Conan in the Hour of the Dragon
LeClue22, 2008
"The Hour of the Dragon", also known as "Conan the Conqueror", is a sword and sorcery novel written by master story teller Robert E. Howard featuring Conan the Cimmerian. Conan is on a quest to retrieve the Heart of Ahriman in order to defeat the wizard and regain his throne takes him through all the lands of Hyboria. [Kindle Formatted]
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Twenty Years After
LeClue, 2008
Twenty Years is the sequel to "The Three Musketeers" followed by “The Man in the Iron Mask." The story follows the continued adventures of the, now four musketeers d’Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis during the conclusion of English Civil War. D’artagnan and his musketeers are valiant and right in their efforts to protect young Louis XIV and the doomed Charles I from their ...
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The Man in the Iron Mask
LeClue, 2008
The third and last installment of the Three Musketeer's story by Alexandre Dumas. There is a man imprisoned in the Bastille who is forced to wear an iron mask day and night to hide his true identity. There are those who are plotting against the king who say the man in the iron mask is the king's twin brother. A plot hatches to replace the king with his twin brother.
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Won by the Sword - A Story of the Thirty Years' War 1 review
LeClue, 2008
Thirty Years War history
This book picks up where "The Lion of the North" left off, in the story of the Thirty Years War. As Hector Campbell answers an officer's questions about the make-believe war that he and his fellow-comrades are doing Hector never imagines it could be the great Turenne. But before long Hector is ...
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The Outlaw of Torn
LeClue, 2008
The Outlaw of Torn is a historical novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, The story is set in 13th century England and is about the outlaw knight Norman of Torn. Torn is the son of the king’s fencing master. And is virtually unstoppable with the blade. Yet he harbors a bitter grudge against those that have wronged his family.
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Scaramouche 38 reviews
LeClue, 2008
Superb Romantic Fiction
+ The genesis of adventure! + Funny Name, Great Read + a well told story + One of the best books written
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Don Juan
LeClue22, 2008
Don Juan is a long, digressive satiric poem by Lord Byron, based on the legend of Don Juan, which Byron reverses, portraying Juan not as a womanizer but someone easily seduced by women. Modern critics generally consider it to be Byron's masterpiece.
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Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini - Sculptor, Goldsmith & Duelist
LeClue, 2008
'You should know that men like Benvenuto, unique in their profession, need not be subject to the law.' Thus spoke Pope Paul III on learning that Cellini had murdered a fellow artist, so great was his reputation in Renaissance Florence. A renowned sculptor and goldsmith, whose works include the famous salt-cellar made for the King of France, and the statue of Perseus with the head of the Medusa, ...
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History of the Kings of Britain 14 reviews
LeClue, 2008
Historical and Literary Aspects
+ Kings indeed + Kind of weird, kind of long, kind of boring but still... + This IS a trans. of the Latin HRB. + History of the Kings of Britain
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Warriors of Old Japan - And Other Stories, 2008
Author?s Introduction: I have invented none of these stories. They are taken from many different sources, and in clothing them with an English dress my work has been that of adapter rather than translator. In picturesqueness of conception Japanese stories yield the palm to none. And they are rich in quaint expressions and dainty conceits. But they are apt to be written in a style almost too bald. ...
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Zorro - "The Curse of Capistrano" - (The Original First Story)
LeClue22 [Kindle], 2008
"The Curse of Capistrano" Was the first story of the legendary swordsman Zorro. Zorro (Spanish for Fox) is the secret identity of Don Diego de la Vega a nobleman and master swordsman living in Spanish and Mexican-era California. He is a masked outlaw who defends the people of the land against tyrannical officials and other villains. Not only is he much too cunning and fox like for the bumbling ...
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Cyrano de Bergerac
LeClue, 2008
Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand based on the life of the real Cyrano de Bergerac. The first four acts are set in 1640, while the fifth is set in 1655. An immediate triumph upon its release, the play is one of the most popular in the French language and has been filmed several times and even made into an opera and a ballet.
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The Three Musketeers
MacMay, 2008
"The Three Musketeers" is the story of the young hot tempered country lad named D'Artagnan who leaves home to join his the Musketeers. D'Artagnan's father had been a musketeer. But in Paris despite being good with the sword D'Artagnan must prove himself before being offered a commission to the elite-fighting regiment. But then at last D'Artagnan is befriended by three musketeer's best soldiers, ...
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Twenty Years After
LeClue, 2008
Twenty Years is the sequel to "The Three Musketeers" followed by “The Man in the Iron Mask." The story follows the continued adventures of the, now four musketeers d’Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis during the conclusion of English Civil War. D’artagnan and his musketeers are valiant and right in their efforts to protect young Louis XIV and the doomed Charles I from their ...
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Zorro - "The Curse of Capistrano" - (The Original First Story)
LeClue22 [Kindle], 2008
"The Curse of Capistrano" Was the first story of the legendary swordsman Zorro. Zorro (Spanish for Fox) is the secret identity of Don Diego de la Vega a nobleman and master swordsman living in Spanish and Mexican-era California. He is a masked outlaw who defends the people of the land against tyrannical officials and other villains. Not only is he much too cunning and fox like for the bumbling ...
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Warriors of Old Japan - And Other Stories, 2008
Author?s Introduction: I have invented none of these stories. They are taken from many different sources, and in clothing them with an English dress my work has been that of adapter rather than translator. In picturesqueness of conception Japanese stories yield the palm to none. And they are rich in quaint expressions and dainty conceits. But they are apt to be written in a style almost too bald. ...
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