From: rod@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Rodrick Su)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Possible Ideas for Forthcoming Khaavren books by Steven Brust
Date: 2 Sep 1995 07:20:22 GMT
Organization: Tigana Restoration Inc.

In article <420eqj$mlr@clarknet.clark.net>,
Ahasuerus the Wandering Jew <ahasuer@clark.net> wrote:
Chris Byler (cfb4@louie.EEAP.CWRU.Edu) wrote:
> Hound of Cullen (Zisbo@aol.com) wrote: [snip]
> : You do realize that Mr. Brust is deriving these books from/poking fun at
> : A. Dumas' "The Three Musketeers" and the sequels "Twenty Years After" and
> : "Le Vicomte de Bragelogne" (one part of which is "The Man in the Iron
> : Mask").  If you want to get a _general idea of where he's taking these,
> : read the Dumas books (worth reading in their own right).
> Well. I didn't realize the correspondence of titles was so exact.. of the
> three works you mention, I had only heard of _The Three Musketeers_. Hmm..
> did Dumas write a fourth book? If so, what was it called? 


	Back to the original question.  The Dumas's book is as followed:

	The Three Musketeers
	Twenty Years After

	And the massive novel that got broken up into 3 pieces when
	translated into English:

	Le Vicomte de Bragelonne
	which is comprised of:
	
	Ten Years After
	Louise de la Valliere
	The Man in Iron Mask.

	Brust's take is as follow:
	Pheonix Guards
	Five Hundred Years After

	
	And the massive novel that became a trilogy when translated into
	Easterner's language:

	The Viscount of Andralanka
	which is comprised of:

	The Path of the Dead
	The Sorceress of Dzur Mountain
	The Lord of the Black Castle


	Pretty good match wouldn't you said.  Of course, Paris did not 
	get turned into a Sea of Chaos at the end of Twenty Years After
	the way it happened in Five Hundred Years After.


	
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