LEADER 02257ojm 2200277z- 450 001 9910150477103321 005 20230913112557.0 010 $a1-933311-95-9 035 $a(CKB)3710000000944284 035 $a(BIP)052664215 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000944284 100 $a20231107c2014uuuu -u- - 101 0 $aeng 200 10$aAntonin Derues : Celebrated Crimes, Book 8 210 $cFreshwater Seas 330 8 $aTo paraphrase the note from the translator, The Celebrated Crimes of Alexandre Dumas pere was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language - has minced no words - to describe violent scenes of violent times. In this, the eighth of the series, Dumas explores the depths of a soul, that of Antonin Derues, a man capable of the most amazing hypocrisy, perfidy, and cruelty. He was what we would know today as an extreme sociopath, a man willing to lie, cheat, steal, and kill out of overwhelming avarice, with little or no compassion for his victims, or even understanding of what he forced upon them. The place is Paris; the time is just before the Revolution. Dumas has no love for his subject; in several passages he lashes out at him with downright fury, and everywhere spares no pains to show us the worst of him. As is typical of his approach, he bases his story on the facts of the case, but does not hesitate to supply thoughts, words, and actions of his characters out of his imagination, in circumstances where no record of them can possibly exist. Although he lays no stress upon it, his story of the hideous carrier of this infamous criminal also indicts the society of the time; a society in which a man who created a thorough appearance of the forms of religious feeling diverted all attention from his true nature - as shown by his actions. If ever there was a story in which we are happy to see the bad guy get his comeuppance, it is certainly this one. Enjoy! 517 $aAntonin Derues 610 $aHistory 610 $aFiction 610 $aLiterature And Fiction 700 $aDumas$b Alexandre.$f1802-1870$0176848 702 $aBethune$b Robert$f1954-$4nrt 906 $aAUDIO 912 $a9910150477103321 996 $aAntonin Derues : Celebrated Crimes, Book 8$93594074 997 $aUNINA