The Red Sphinx

by Alexandre Dumas

  Indeed, the story of France from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century, as Dumas vibrantly retold it in his enormously popular novels, has long been absent one vital, richly historical era: the Age of Napoleon. But no longer. Now, dynamically, in a tale of family honor and undying vengeance, of high adventure and heroic derring-do, The Last Cavalier represents Dumas’s final literary achievement.

  “Epic storytelling in the hands of a master. Pegasus Books has done a real service to world literature by giving us an English translation of this once-forgotten work.”

  —Nick Ochwar, The Los Angeles Times

  “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.”

  —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

  “Splendid. . . . The Last Cavalier is a lost treasure. The spirit of Monte-Cristo rides again.”

  —The New York Review of Books

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  The Red Sphinx, by Alexandre Dumas, Translated by Lawrence Ellsworth

  Translation and Original Material Copyright 2017 © by Lawrence Schick

  Front cover art: detail of “The Duel After the Masquerade” (1859) by Jean-Léon Gérôme

  Back cover art © 2017 by Lee Moyer, after a 1900 phototypogravure by Maurice Leloir

  First Pegasus Books hardcover edition January 2017

  Interior design by Sabrina Plomitallo-González, Pegasus Books

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  ISBN: 978-1-68177-297-4

  ISBN: 978-1-68177-366-7 (e-book)

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