books similar to alexandre dumas's?

[underground]

i finally picked up the count of monte cristo and have been enjoying it immensely. does anyone know books that are similar to that (or to the three musketeers)?

[Charles Darnay]

Cyrano de Bergerac. It's a play, but there are a lot of similarities between it and Dumas' works

[aeroport]

Perhaps some of Sabatini's historical fiction (the Sea Hawk, Captain Blood, Scaramouche, etc.)

[Boris239]

Have you read Dumas novel besides Count of M. and Three Musketeers? There are a lot of them- Queen Margot, Countess of Monsoreau, Forty Five, Two Dianas, Black Tulip, Ascanio and many others.
I'd also reccomend:
Sir Walter Scott- Quentin Dorvard and Ivanhoe
Maurice Druon- Cursed Kings

[Jean-Baptiste]

Well, I was going to suggest Captain Blood, but Jamesian beat me to it. So I'll just second. It's been a long time since I read the several books by Dumas that I've read, but in all that time Sabatini has been the one author that gave me a similar feeling to Dumas.

[Whifflingpin]

Courtilz de Sandras, writer of "The Memoirs of d'Artagnan" (1700) and other more or less fictional accounts of real C17th characters.
To quote from the introduction to Ralph Nevill's translation (1899) of "d'Artagnan," "his is a spirited and romantic (if perhaps highly coloured) picture of seventeenth century life in France - a picture which cannot fail to amuse all those who have a taste for historical romance."

[Stephi]

I'd agree with Jamesian that some of Sabatini's work is quite similar to Dumas. I'm a big Dumas fan myself, and, having run out of Dumas books (having read about 20) I read "The Black Swan" and "The Sea Hawk" by Sabatini, and enjoyed both of them.

[mtpspur]

Red letter night for me---in poring over the forums I run across Sabatini and Haggard fans.

A new book of Sabatini short stores has been published by Crippen and Landru, PO Box 9315, Norfolk VA 23505-0315.

Title: The Evidence of the Sword--Hardcover $29//Trade pp--$19.00, $3.00 posting--United States--VA resident s add 5.0% sales tax.

I've beem haunting their website on and off for over a year--it comes and goes and originally it was going to be titled the Romance of the Sword.

Sabatinit fans please support this and maybe some other out of prints will make it back--still looking for historical Nights Entertainments Vols 1 and 3.

Thank goodness for inter-library loans.

[Kara Ortiez]

I agree. Sabatini is an excellent choice if you're looking for work similar to Dumas'. I would suggest The Sea Hawk and Scaramouche. I found both hard to put down. Prince of Foxes by Samuel Shellabarger is also pretty good as is The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope. Jules Verne wrote Mathias Sandorf his tribute to Dumas in 1885. It borrows the storyline from The Count of Monte Cristo, a wrongly imprisoned man out for justice, but it's set in the late 1800s. The doctor has all the latest tech gadgets of the era, Verne could have written the Bond novels had he lived a century later...