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Alexandre Dumas [a] (born Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, [b] 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), [1] [2] also known as Alexandre Dumas père, [c] was a French novelist and playwright. His works have been translated into many languages and he is one of the most widely read French authors.
The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by the French author Alexandre Dumas (père) serialized from 1844 to 1846.It is one of the author's most popular works, along with The Three Musketeers and The Man in the Iron Mask.
Author Nationality Original language Target languages Total no. of translations 1: Agatha Christie: English: 103 [2] ... English — 2,597 [3] 14: Alexandre Dumas ...
A Pizzajolo ("pizza baker") in Naples, ca. 1830. Published in four volumes, which came out between 1841 and 1843, Le Corricolo collects a series of tales inspired by anecdotes, stories, portraits, puns and stories of excursions, that Alexandre Dumas recorded in 1835, when he visited Naples and southern Italy, so much so that, in the English edition, it was published under the title Sketches of ...
La Sanfelice (or La San Felice) is an 1864 novel by the French writer Alexandre Dumas. [1] It depicts the arrest and execution in Naples of Luisa Sanfelice, who was accused of conspiring with the French and their supporters against Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies during the French Revolutionary War.
Georges is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père set on Isle de France (Mauritius), from 1810 to 1824.This novel is of particular scholarly interest because Dumas reused many of its ideas and plot devices later in The Count of Monte Cristo and because race and racism are at the center of the novel, a topic Dumas rarely wrote about, despite his part-African ancestry. [1]
Dumas had been writing plays since the 1820s, but this marked his first serialised novel. In 1839 it was published as a three volume edition and a year later was published in an English translation. [2] Walter Scott was an influence on the author's writings, and he praises him in the preface of the 1839 edition in comparison to Genlis and ...
Montevideo, or the new Troy (French: Montevideo, ou une nouvelle Troie) is an 1850 novel by Alexandre Dumas.It is a historical novel about the Uruguayan Civil War, where the Uruguayan presidents Manuel Oribe and Fructuoso Rivera disputed the rule of the country.