Books published by publisher New York, The Heritage Press

1953 Heritage Press version of Dumas' historical novel. 'Set in 1625, it recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan (based on Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan) after he leaves home to travel to Paris, to join the Musketeers of the Guard. Although D'Artagnan is not able to join this elite corps immediately, he befriends the three most formidable musketeers of the age: Athos, Porthos and Aramis and gets involved in affairs of the state and court. In genre, The Three Musketeers is primarily a historical and adventure novel . However, Dumas also frequently works into the plot various injustices, abuses and absurdities of the old regime, giving the novel an additional political aspect at a time when the debate in France between republicans and monarchists was still fierce. The story was first serialized from March to July 1844, during the July Monarchy, four years before the French Revolution of 1848 violently established the Second Republic. The author's father, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, had been a well-known General in France's Republican army during the French Revolutionary Wars.'

Reprint edition. THE HERITAGE PRESS, NY - ca. 1940. Color Frontispiece with many other full page color illustrations. THE LIFE & ADVENTURES OF MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT - His relatives, friends and enemies: comprising all his wills and ways," the whole forming a complete key to The House of Chuzzlewit. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION By JOHN T. WINTERICH AND ILLUSTRATIONS By WRAY MANNING.

Oliver Twist is born in a workhouse in 1830s England. His mother, whose name no one knows, is found on the street and dies just after Oliver's birth. Oliver spends the first nine years of his life in a badly run home for young orphans and then is transferred to a workhouse for adults. Oliver Twist, a compelling history of the lives of workhouse children in the industrial revolution. The novel was the first of the author’s works to realistically depict the impoverished London underworld and to illustrate his belief that poverty leads to crime.

This is a superb writing by an absolutely superb writer. As an appreciator of Jane Austen and her writings, Thomas Hardy is equal to her style Writers of today are very good, but could pick up some tips by reading Mr. Hardy. This Far From the Maddening Crowd in on the list of our book club in the local library. it is a must read for anyone who wants to learn about the customs of his time in history.