More books!

I can now add to my reading list two Alexandre Dumas books I've never encountered in English translation before: The Women's War available in Penguin Classics, is set in the opening years of the reign of Louis XIV and centres on two women, supporters of Anne of Austria and the Condé respectively. I had never realised just how much Dumas likes his naive Gascon soldiers before, either; there another (hopefully not d'Artagnan) in this book, who fancies both women.

This is the first new English translation for 150 years apparently, which will account for why I've never seen it before.

The second book has never been translated into English before it seems, and is called One Thousand and One Ghosts and sees Dumas dealing with vampire victims, a man who is over 275 years old and a man who was bitten by the head of his guillotined wife.

Sounds a hoot.

More books!

I can now add to my reading list two Alexandre Dumas books I've never encountered in English translation before: The Women's War available in Penguin Classics, is set in the opening years of the reign of Louis XIV and centres on two women, supporters of Anne of Austria and the Condé respectively. I had never realised just how much Dumas likes his naive Gascon soldiers before, either; there another (hopefully not d'Artagnan) in this book, who fancies both women.

This is the first new English translation for 150 years apparently, which will account for why I've never seen it before.

The second book has never been translated into English before it seems, and is called One Thousand and One Ghosts and sees Dumas dealing with vampire victims, a man who is over 275 years old and a man who was bitten by the head of his guillotined wife.

Sounds a hoot.