Joseph Balsamo

by Alexandre Dumas

Overview

Joseph Balsamo is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, inspired by the life and personality of Giuseppe Balsamo, commonly referred to as Count Alessandro di Cagliostro. It is the first of six books in Dumas' Marie Antoinette series and is followed by Memoirs of a Physician, The Queen's Necklace, Taking the Bastille, The Countess de Charny, and Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge, all coming soon from Hawthorne. Joseph Balsamo appeared in serial form in La Presse between 1846 and 1849. This is an edited reprint of the unabridged 1902 translation published by P.F. Collier and Son.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781087920092
Publisher:	Hawthorne Classics
Publication date:	12/10/2020
Series:	The Queen's Necklace , #1
Pages:	810
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.61(d)

About the Author

One of the most widely read French authors famed for his historical fiction of high adventure, Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) wrote more than a hundred plays and novels, including the famous Three Musketeers trilogy, The Count of Monte Cristo, and The Man in the Iron Mask. His books have been translated into more than 100 languages.