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 ...

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 ...

Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie was born in 1802 in Villers-Cotterêts, France. He later took the name Alexandre Dumas. As a child, Dumas was entertained with stories about his father’s exploits as a ...

KING OF PARIS (504 pp.)—Guy Endore —Simon & Schuster ($4). Three roaring literary lions bestrode the narrow Paris of the mid-19th century. All three wrote enormously, loved widely, spent wildly.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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