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Alexandre Dumas: The King of Romance

By F. W. J. Hemmings
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By F. W. J. Hemmings
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The last of Alexandre Dumas's many mistresses, the American actress Adah Menken, called him "the king of romance." She was not thinking only of his immensely popular novels The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo - everything about Dumas was touched with the spirit of romance, and it is that spirit which this exhilarating biography captures.

There was romance in Dumas's ori­gins. He grew up in the country, the son of a general who fought under Napoleon in Egypt and Italy and whose...

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LiteratureLiterary CriticismFrench Literature19th Century French Literature - Literary Criticism