[fluffy bunny]

From the posts I wrote so far i seem to have:

The Man In the Iron Mask,
The Count of Monte Cristo,
The three musketeers,
Treasure Island,
Captain Blood

What am i missing?

[Ogg]

The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, maybe?

[fluffy bunny]

Already got that one- besides i'm not looking for more fairy stories at the mo if i can help it.

Sorry, I should have said- this post continues from the swashbuckling and the count of monte cristo posts that i deleted earlier. Set a few hundred years ago, adventures on the high seas or in the zorro tradition.

I miss my x marks the spot tales. And captain pugwash.

Are there any pirate short stories on this board then?

[Bond]

You look a little and you'll find other recommendations on this same topic but in a nutshell add the following:

20 Years After
Les Miserables
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Kidnapped
The Prince and the Pauper
Ivanhoe
Quentin Durward
The Black Arrow
Les Liaisons Dangeraux

[fluffy bunny]

Thanks- u nailed it in one there- books i have heard of, but never read.

[Bond]

If you want something with an oriental flare James Clavell's books are winners. There is also a book about the legendary samurai Miyamoto Musashi but I cannot quite remember the name and of course Tale of Genji. Tales of the Heike too.

[fluffy bunny]

Looks like I'll have to realearn French sometime.

[Cadfael]

One book in this class I like is Moonfleet by J. Meade Faulkener, very much in the same vein as Stephenson's 'Kidnapped' and 'Treasure Island'.

[nicba]

If you are going to read Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers and The Man In the Iron Mask, you might wan't to read the entire series. It goes something like this (I think):

1. The Three Musketeers
2. Twenty Years After
3. The Vicomte de Bragelonne
4. Ten Years Later (which is 10 years 'later' than the ending of Twenty Years After, ugh!)
5. Louise de la Valliere
6. The Man in the Iron Mask

Apparently, The Vicomte de Bragelonne was only one book in the original french, but has been split into three, four and five books in different version of the english translation. The titles listed above is from the four-volume edition.

Anyway, it's all mightely confusing. I have the above information from the foreword of the Gutenberg Etext version of The Man In the Iron Mask. I suggest you download and read that if you're really interested. The man who wrote it explains things much nicer than I do.

[fluffy bunny]

Thanks- so it's 2 trilogies then?