Alexandre Dumas, author of the popular classic 'The Three Musketeers' is one of the most widely read French authors. He started out by writing plays, and the first time his work was ever performed in ...

THE JOURNAL OF MADAME GIOVANNI—Alexandra Dumas—Liveright ($3). Readers of two of the most readable books ever written—The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo—had an unusual experience this ...

Dumas faced discrimination related to his mixed-race ancestry across his career, and also penned works that addressed the issues of race and colonialism Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The ...

Google is celebrating the life of revered French novelist Alexandre Dumas with a doodle serialising one of his best loved works. The slideshow tells the story of The Count of Monte Cristo - an ...

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas is the author's best known novel. The story was originally serialized between March and July of 1844 in Le Siècle magazine. It is a fast paced adventure into ...

The novel's plot is complicated and would take more than a few lines to sum up. The son of "Milady," the two-faced Mazarin, smuggle the young king and his mother from Paris which is becoming hostile ...

Shakespeare wins, but in second place, with more than 200 adaptations to his name, is the less predictable figure of Alexandre Dumas. 'After God,' he once said, 'Shakespeare has created most' - and ...

Any great storyteller, from Dumas to Dan Brown, would be happy with the way this one opens. Foraging in the stacks of the old Bibliothèque nationale de France in Rue de Richelieu during the 1980s, a ...

Today, July 24, 2017, Alexandre Dumas turns 215. He may be dead physically, but he lives on in public memory in a way that few authors can. Which is why it’s not wrong to say he turns 215. As of this ...

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