{"product_id":"les-pardaillan-volume-i-english-version-the-pardaillan-a-complete-cycle-in-ten-volumes-by-michel-zevaco-translated-by-edgard-bronce-ceray","title":"LES PARDAILLAN: Volume I (English version) (The Pardaillan a Complete Cycle in Ten Volumes by Michel Zévaco Translated by Edgard Bronce-Ceray)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cspan\u003eThe greatest French adventure novelist you've never read.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichel Zévaco (1860–1918) holds the same place in France that Alexandre Dumas holds in the English-speaking world: a master of historical adventure fiction, beloved by millions, acknowledged by Sartre as a writer of genius. His ten-volume \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePardaillan\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e cycle — published between 1902 and 1918 — has never been seriously translated into English. Until now.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrance, 1553.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Two brothers love the same woman. One marries her in secret. The other destroys her. From this act of betrayal, a vendetta is born that will sweep across the French Wars of Religion — through the court of Catherine de Medici, the streets of Paris on the eve of the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre, and the shadow wars between Catholic and Huguenot.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the heart of the storm stands Jean de Pardaillan: swordsman, vagabond, lover, and the most dangerous man in France. Armed with nothing but a battered rapier, a stray dog, and the worst advice his father ever gave him, he will defy princes, mock assassins, and fall desperately in love — all before breakfast.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Pardaillan\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is swashbuckling fiction at its most exhilarating: part Dumas, part Sabatini, part political thriller. It is a novel of duels fought at midnight, of secret marriages and poisoned courts, of old soldiers and young wolves, of a France tearing itself apart — and of one man too stubborn, too brave, and too in love to stand aside.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis edition:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the first complete, literary English translation of Volume I of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLes Pardaillan\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. The sole prior attempt (2009) was widely noted for its errors. Volumes II through X have never been translated at all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Edgard Bronce-Ceray with fidelity to Zévaco's distinctive voice: vivid, rhythmic, ironic, and unapologetically populist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor readers of Alexandre Dumas, Rafael Sabatini, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, and Patrick O'Brian.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books Prime","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45916500361407,"sku":"183069f3-72a4-477f-afee-7ec8ce76dcfa","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/7550\/7647\/files\/21ee113f415b3043c7692fb68298f81e.jpg?v=1785090225","url":"https:\/\/books-prime.com\/products\/les-pardaillan-volume-i-english-version-the-pardaillan-a-complete-cycle-in-ten-volumes-by-michel-zevaco-translated-by-edgard-bronce-ceray","provider":"Books Prime","version":"1.0","type":"link"}