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Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Who was the real Count of Monte Cristo? In this extraordinary biography, Tom Reiss traces the almost unbelievable life of the man who inspired not only Monte Cristo, but all three of the Musketeers: the novelist's own father. Born in St Dominigue in 1762, the son of a French nobleman and a sugar plantat ...Show more
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
$23.00 AUD
Category: Literary
"Completely absorbing". (Amanda Foreman). "Enthralling". (Guardian). "The Three Musketeers! The Count of Monte Cristo! The stories of course are fiction. But here a prize-winning author shows us that the inspiration for the swashbuckling stories was, in fact, Dumas' own father, Alex - the son of a marqu ...Show more
The Orientalist by Tom Reiss
$25.00 AUD
Category: General
"Tom Reiss first came across Nussimbaum when he went to the ex-USSR to research Russia s oil reserves, and discovered a novel instead. Written on the eve of the Second World War, Ali and Nino is a captivating love story set in the glamorous city of Baku, Azerbaijan s capital. The novel s depiction of a ...Show more
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