![]() ![]() I didn’t read Dumas after my early teens the comics and the abridged children’s books yellowed, forgotten on the shelves. Swords gave way to guns and then blasters then computer games. As time progressed, d’Artagnan blended into Robin Hood into Lancelot, the Lone Ranger, Flash Gordon and and eventually into Luke Skywalker. I knew at an early age about the subterfuge of cardinals and the honour of queens. We died, histrionically, at a sword thrust defending our imagined Milady.Īthos, Porthos, Aramis, Artemis, d’Artagnan – I knew the names of all four Musketeers better than I knew the historical names in my school textbooks. Neighbourhood children made swords out of wooden posts and branches, then rolled around on the lawn playing at swordfights, banging our rough sticks together, bruising fingers, laughing, jumping on imaginary horses and riding off, firing our finger-pistols at the approaching Cardinal’s men. We learned to behave, to be men and women, by reading such tales, by imitating their heroes, by wishing on their stars, learning their manners and their wit and their honour by being our own Musketeers. ![]() Do you watch The Princess Bride and wonder who inspired it? His ideas and plots were mined by many who came after. We may not have always realized that it was Dumas who was the source, of course. Swashbuckling adventures, romances with honour and swordfighting. And, yes, books, albeit often abridged for the young market, with drawings of swordsmen, women in flowing dresses, and the court of kings. Est.Many of us grew up on the stories of Alexandre Dumas from cartoons to comic books, TV series and movies. © 2006–2022 Naxos AudioBooks (UK) Limited, Unit 8, Salbrook Ind. Help/Information Contact Us About Us Links Distributors Privacy Policy (GDPR) News/Blogs New Releases by Month The NAB Blog Awards Subscribe e-Newsletter Naxos Spoken Word Library Non-Fiction The Arts Biographies History Music Philosophy Religion Otherĭrama Shakespeare Other Drama Other Poetry Junior Classics Young Adult Classics Collections & Sets Unabridged The NAB Blog – The Utopian Tradition – William Morris and Edward BellamyĬatalogue Titles Authors Readers Unabridged Fiction Classic Fiction Modern Classics Contemporary Fiction.Titles by Alexandre Dumas Titles by Alexandre Dumas Beau Geste (unabridged) The Black Tulip (unabridged) The Count of Monte Cristo (abridged) The Count of Monte Cristo (unabridged) The Man in the Iron Mask (unabridged) The Man in the Iron Mask (abridged) The Three Musketeers (abridged) The Three Musketeers (unabridged) Recently viewed Titles read by Bill Homewood Titles read by Bill Homewood 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (unabridged) Allan Quatermain (unabridged) Around the World in Eighty Days (unabridged) Colonel Chabert (unabridged) The Council of Justice (unabridged) The Count of Monte Cristo (abridged) The Count of Monte Cristo (unabridged) Father Goriot (unabridged) The Four Just Men (unabridged) From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon (unabridged) The Further Adventures of Zorro (unabridged) Gargantua and Pantagruel (unabridged) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (abridged) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (unabridged) Journey to the Centre of the Earth (unabridged) The Just Men of Cordova (unabridged) King Solomon’s Mines (abridged) La Rabouilleuse (unabridged) The Lady of the Camellias (abridged) Le Morte d'Arthur (unabridged) Les Misérables (abridged) Les Misérables (unabridged) The Man in the Iron Mask (unabridged) The Man in the Iron Mask (abridged) The Mark of Zorro (unabridged) The Moonstone (abridged) The Red and the Black (abridged) The Red and the Black (unabridged) The Scarlet Pimpernel (unabridged) Shakespeare’s Lovers (unabridged) She (abridged) She – A History of Adventure (unabridged) The Sign of Zorro (unabridged) The Song of Roland (unabridged) The Three Musketeers (abridged) The Three Musketeers (unabridged) Tom Jones (unabridged) Zorro Rides Again (unabridged) Bill has published six collections of poetry including 50 Sonnets (Mimosa Books, 2000). They include She, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Count of Monte Cristo, Les Misérables and Le Morte d’Arthur. His recordings for Naxos AudioBooks have won many awards. Bill Homewood is known for his innumerable television performances and leading credits in the West End and for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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