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One of the most famous French writers of the nineteenth century, Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) first achieved success in the literary world a playwright, before turning his hand to writing novels. In two years from 1844 to 1845, he published two enormous books, The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. Both novels have sold millions of copies worldwide. Lawrence Ellsworth is the pen name of Lawrence Schick. He began his career as a writer at TSR Hobbies, where he was instrumental in the early popularity of the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. An authority on historical adventure fiction, Ellsworth is the editor of The Big Book of Swashbuckling Adventure as well as the translator of Alexandre Dumas's The Red Sphinx and The Three Musketeers. He lives in northern Maryland.
There is swash and buckle aplenty, and even plumage if that's what does it for you. And it is great fun. [Praise for Lawrence Ellsworth's translations of Dumas's Musketeers series] * The Spectator [Praise for Lawrence Ellsworth's translations of Dumas's Musketeers series] * Fans of The Three Musketeers can rejoice in the 800-page English translation of this largely forgotten sequel. [Praise for Lawrence Ellsworth's translations of Dumas's Musketeers series] * Newsday [Praise for Lawrence Ellsworth's translations of Dumas's Musketeers series] * A royal treat for fans of historical fiction. I am confident that librarians and English literature teachers around the world are leaping for joy at the publication of The Red Sphinx, and I join them in this excitement. [Praise for Lawrence Ellsworth's translations of Dumas's Musketeers series] * Bookreporter [Praise for Lawrence Ellsworth's translations of Dumas's Musketeers series] * The test of a translator is his capacity to capture this characteristic interplay of the heroic and the ribald; the sincere and the ironic; the vanished past and the approaching present. And at this task Ellsworth succeeds, giving us a Three Musketeers with more clarity, energy, and simplicity than any previous English edition. [Praise for Lawrence Ellsworth's translations of Dumas's Musketeers series] * Open Letters Review [Praise for Lawrence Ellsworth's translations of Dumas's Musketeers series * Dumas's trademark gifts at crafting engaging historical romances are amply in evidence in this lengthy yet fast-paced volume. Ellsworth's translation captures a complete narrative. A very entertaining epic. [Praise for Lawrence Ellsworth's translations of Dumas's Musketeers series] * Publishers Weekly (starred) * The Red Sphinx sparkles and shines in a new translation. Races along with pointed humor and broad quips. Fun permeates this big book. The rest of this year's fiction will have to look sharp: An old master has just set the bar very, very high. [Praise for Lawrence Ellsworth's translations of Dumas's Musketeers series] * Christian Science Monitor [Praise for Lawrence Ellsworth's translations of Dumas's Musketeers * Newly translated, a sequel to The Three Musketeers is as fresh as ever. In Lawrence Ellsworth's excellent, compulsively readable translation, The Red Sphinx is just the book to see you through the January doldrums. And maybe those of February, too. [Praise for Lawrence Ellsworth's translations of Dumas's Musketeers series] -- Michael Dirda * Washington Post [Praise for Lawrence Ellsworth's translations of Dumas's Musketeers series] * Dumas never stints the action, witty dialogue and surprising plot developments. * The Washington Post * Translator Lawrence Ellsworth has triumphantly returned to Dumas's Musketeers cycle with this fresh translation of Twenty Years After. In addition to restoring Dumas's snappy dialogue and snarky humor that the Victorian-era translation stifled, Ellsworth restores Chapter XXIX, which has been absent from nearly every British and American version since the nineteenth century. Eminently readable. * Historical Novels Review *
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