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3) Three musketeers (never read it) early translation

I hope you enjoy it; it's a romp from start to finish. Don't forget to read the sequels afterwards: Twenty Years After and The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later, both of which are excellent, particularly Twenty Years After, which is in my opinion superior to The Three Musketeers, Dumas seemingly taking more time to edit than he did on Three Musketeers.
 
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3) Three musketeers (never read it) early translation

The whole series (as recommended above) is good.
And I like the older publications - I think it was Collins (or Collier - something like that) who published some translations in the early 1900's.

I have continued on with Dumas's historical fiction stories from that period, and am currently reading The Whites and the Blues, which takes up not long after the be-heading of the royal family, and introduces Napoleon when he was commander of an artillery unit.
 

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"Girl Around The World," newspaperwoman Dorothy Kilgallen's 1937 memoir of her round-the-world stunt trip. Going by zeppelin, commercial airliner, train, and ship, Kilgallen competed against two male reporters in a race around the globe using only methods available to the general public and completed her trip in 24 1/2 days -- beating Nellie Bly's old record by over a month. Yet another Golden Era woman who wasn't chained to a washboard.
 

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"Girl Around The World," newspaperwoman Dorothy Kilgallen's 1937 memoir of her round-the-world stunt trip. ...

Sounds really interesting and entertaining. Just ordered a copy.

Only two books on the burner right now:

No parachute: a fighter pilot in World War I : letters written in 1917 by A.S.G. Lee
The mathematical tourist : new and updated snapshots of modern mathematics / Ivars Peterson
 

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These days I'm browsing thru the 1975 edition of "The MGM story", a true doorstopper that I bought at the remarkable "Fine books" at Palma de Mallorca. It covers 1.705 MGM movies of 50 years, all with pictures and information on story line, actors, makers. This'll keep me busy for quite some time...
(and make me sad that so many of these movies are unavailable around here)
 

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I am reading now Rasputin: The Last Word by Edvard Radzinsky

He had so much power over the Tzar and Tzarina....unbelievable!!! he did manage to heal in some way their hemophilic and beautiful son and heir...


this is him



but he was killed along with the family too, Rasputin was killed first.... it's a very interesting story. All were killed.
 

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No parachute: a fighter pilot in World War I : letters written in 1917 by A.S.G. Lee

That's a magnificent read Hercule. I see it has recently been rereleased, I unfortunately had to pay a large sum back in the day for it ;)

If you haven't already read it, may I suggest "Winged Victory" by V.M. Yeates which are his experiences as a Camel pilot which he wrote in novel form. It's simply incredible, one of the best accounts of war in the air there is IMHO.
 

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Cowboys Full; The Story of Poker, James McManus

Also found a vintage edition of a favorite, Herbert O. Yardley's The Education of a Poker Player
 

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