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The Dumas Club, The Ninth Gate (Paperback)

by Arturo Perez-Reverte (Author), Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)
4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: The Harvill Press; Film tie-in edition edition (28 April 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1860467687
  • ISBN-13: 978-1860467684
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 549,462 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Michael Kerrigan, Scotsman

‘A dizzyingly complicated, dazzlingly allusive, breathlessly exciting novel of adventure and detection’ --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.


New Yorker

'Even a reader armed with a Latin dictionary and a copy of The Three Musketeers cannot anticipate the thrilling twists of this Escher-like mystery’ --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Occult and literary plot twists and turns, 2 Nov 2001
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This novel which features two intertwined story threads, one regarding a Dumas manuscript and the other the quest to authenticate a satanic text kept me guessing to the end. Perez-Reverte skillfully combines fact and fiction to create a convincing world where fabled books such as the Delomalenicon (like HP Lovecrafts' Necronomicon) are real and the boundaries of reality and fantasy become blurred. Buy it, you wont be able to put it down.
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50 of 53 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Quality, 31 Mar 2004
This review is from: The Dumas Club (Paperback)
I loved this book.

I am a fan of mystery and intrigue, and this book is nothing but! About the world of antique books and the lengths some will go to get their hands on them, it starts as a mystery and descends into devilry and murder.
It is the story of a man hired to find the only three known copies of a 16th century book on Satanism for which the author was burned alive. His client wants the books, he just wants his money. But as events unfold, things suddenly don’t seem as black and white as he first thought. More and more the puzzle points to the long dead author Alexander Dumas, author of The Three Musketeers. How is his work related? And what does it have to do with a well-known book collector, found hanged days earlier...

Quality stuff!

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Making antiquarian books exciting? Here's how., 11 Mar 2003
This review is from: The Dumas Club (Harvill Panther) (Paperback)
Five stars without hesitation. This is a true, break-neck speed, thriller somewhat in the flavour of The Thirty-Nine Steps. In fact, if you dig deep enough there are other parallels. Set in the scholastic and obsessive world of antique book collections, Perez-Reverte manages to infuse his writing, and his characters, with a infectious passion for the literary classics. In Lucas Corso we find a typically Perez-Revertine lead (a modest and withdrawn existential hero of curious yet fanatical habits - a man living in the past) struggling with familiar themes of murder, intregue, and especially, conspiracy. Naturally this is a conspiracy bound-up with at least one feme fatal. Here the plot surrounds Corso's expertese in authenticating collectable antique publications, one of which is an Alexandre Dumas manuscript. The other text is similarly old, similarly precious work - the demonic 'Nine Gates to the Kingdom of Shadows', a text that cost it's author his life and possibly even his soul. It is these two strands that come together so potently in this book as members of the mysterious 'Dumas Club' and collectors of the occult become indistinguishable as Corso is pursued across Europe leaving a trail of corpses in their wake. Such pressure is always required to draw-out Perez-Revertes's characters' true natures - and here some of Corso's more dubious character traits emerge, leaving as ambiguous but believeable a human-being as you will find in modern fiction. However, it is the technique of the classic mystery/thriller that makes this such an extrodinary exciting read. Sadly it is one that is absent from the feature film - directed by Roman Polanski and staring Johnny Depp - The Nine Gates. So my advice is both to read this book, and to read it first: since, of the two strands of the novel, Polanski takes only the occult (cheerfully removing characters, rearranging plotlines) and shamefully makes Corso an American purely for the benefit of americans. The result is a rather formulaic occult-horror flick that co-stars his wife. Enjoy the book first and you'll find the film receives an added dimention as a result.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Good, But Film is Better
A very pleasing book with elements of fantasy and a touch postmodern in its concern for "olde texts", etc. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars The Dumas Club/The Ninth Gate
Much better than film as usual. I wish I'm more familiar with Duma's works.
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5.0 out of 5 stars You're as dead as your books, Corso
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3.0 out of 5 stars So who was the girl?
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3.0 out of 5 stars The devil made me read it...
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3.0 out of 5 stars Great start but slows pace towards the end.
'The Dumas Club' and it's author first came to my attention after I watched the Roman Polanski film 'The Ninth Gate' starring Johnny Depp, which is based on this book. Read more
Published on 13 April 2004 by P Pony

5.0 out of 5 stars response to "wheatear"
I think i can clear up a small matter. It is more likely no mistake has been made in accounting for the books of Dumas' series on the three Musketeers. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars NEW REALITIES
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3.0 out of 5 stars Where are the missing books?
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