Sign-In
Cart
The Bastard of Mauléon: A New Translation
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 31 2025
Pages: 520
Weight: 1.37
Height: 1.29 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
France, the mid-fourteenth century. The war with England has been running for a generation, and in the intervals between campaigns something worse has filled the countryside: the Free Companies, bands of mercenary soldiers with no master and no restraint, taking what they need from whoever cannot stop them. Into this world a man must make his way on the strength of what he can do, because what he was born to - the wrong side of his father's bloodline, the legal nowhere of the bastard son - gives him nothing.
His name is Mauléon. He has his father's blood and none of his father's rights. He has the skills the war has taught him and the intelligence to use them in a world where the rules keep changing. What he does not have, and what the novel traces his attempt to claim, is a place - a legitimate standing in a society that has very precise ideas about what legitimacy means and who gets to have it.
The Bastard of Mauléon is Dumas in the historical period he understood most deeply: the late medieval world where chivalric ideals and brutal realities coexisted without resolution, where loyalty was the highest virtue and betrayal the most common currency, and where a man's worth was determined less by his birth than by what he was willing to do and capable of surviving. Written in the same extraordinary burst of creativity that produced The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, it has the same forward momentum, the same gift for historical atmosphere, and the same understanding that the best adventure stories are also, always, stories about who a person is when the world gives them no easy answers.
One of Dumas' most overlooked novels - and one of his most purely compelling.
Also from
Petault, David
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A New Translation in Modern Accessible English
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Paperback
Journey to the Center of the Earth: A New Translation in Modern Accessible English
Verne, Jules
Paperback
From the Earth to the the moon: A New Translation in Modern Accessible English
Verne, Jules
Paperback
In Search of the Castaways (The Children of Captain Grant): A New Translation in Modern Accessible English
Verne, Jules
Paperback
Magellania (The Survivors of the "Jonathan"): A New Translation in Modern Accessible English
Verne, Jules
Paperback
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time Vol. 2): A New Translation
Proust, Marcel
Paperback
A Country Doctor And Other Stories: In the Penal Colony, The Judgment: A New Translation
Kafka, Franz
Paperback
A Mexican Drama, The Blockade Runners, The Rebels Of The Bounty: A New Translation
Verne, Jules
Paperback
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon ("La Jangada"): A New Translation in Modern Accessible English
Verne, Jules
Paperback
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: A New Translation in Modern Accessible English
Verne, Jules
Paperback
An Antarctic Mystery (Sequel to Edgar Allan Poe's Arthur Gordon Pym): A New Translation
Verne, Jules
Paperback
The Adventures of Captain Hatteras: A New Translation in Modern Accessible English
Verne, Jules
Paperback
Michel Strogoff (From Moscow To Irkutsk): A New Translation in Modern Accessible English
Verne, Jules
Paperback
Also in
Fiction Anthologies
On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings
Pirsig, Robert M.
Pirsig, Wendy K.
Hardcover
James Weldon Johnson: Writings (Loa #145): The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man / Along This Way / Essays and Editorials / Selected Poems
Johnson, James Weldon
Hardcover
Frankenstein, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Shelley, Mary
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stoker, Bram
Paperback
Sez I to Myself: The Collected Essays of Frank and Malachy McCourt
McCourt, Malachy
McCourt, Frank
Hardcover
Here in New England: Unforgettable Stories of People, Places, and Memories That Connect Us All.
Allen, Mel
Paperback
The Greek Tragedies: Seventeen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
Euripides
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Paperback
Learn Russian with Beginner Stories: Interlinear Russian to English
Van Den End, Kees
Hyplern, Bermuda Word
Gettys, Serafima
Paperback
Obvious Adams -- The Story of a Successful Businessman: New Business Edition
Updegraff, Robert R.
Paperback
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings: Poems, Tales, Essays, and Reviews
Poe, Edgar Allan
Hardcover
Bookin' in the Big House: What I Learned Leading a Women's Prison Book Club
Devoto, Pat Cunningham
Paperback
Japanese Folktales for Language Learners: Bilingual Legends and Fables in Japanese and English (Free Online Audio Recording)
Sato, Anna
Sato, Eriko
Paperback
The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories, volume 1
Pedraza, Pilar
Fager, Anders
Cubas, Cristina Fernández
Paperback
The Serpent Mound, Adams County, Ohio (Facsimile Reprint)
Randall, E. O.
Randall, Emilius Oviatt
Paperback