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    Alexandre Dumas

    Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) lived a life as romantic as that depicted in his famous novels. He was born in Villers-Cotterêts, France. His early education was scanty, but his beautiful handwriting secured him a position in Paris in 1822 with the du’Orléans, where he read voraciously and began to write. His first play, Henri III et sa cour (1829), scored a resounding success for its author and the romantic movement. His lavish spending and flamboyant habits led to the construction of his fabulous Château de Monte-Cristo, and in 1851 he fled to Belgium to escape creditors. Dumas’s overall literary output reached more than 277 volumes, but his brilliant historical novels made him the most universally read of all French novelists. With collaborators, mainly Auguste Maquet, Dumas wrote such works as The Three Musketeers (1843–1844); its sequels, Twenty Years After (1845) and the great mystery The Man in the Iron Mask (1845–1850); and The Count of Monte Cristo (1844). His work ignored historical accuracy, psychology, and analysis, but its thrilling adventure and exuberant inventiveness continued to delight readers, and Dumas remains one of the prodigies of nineteenth-century French literature.
    The Modern Library Collection Children's Classics 5-Book Bundle
    The Modern Library Collection Children's Classics 5-Book Bundle
    The Wind in the Willows, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Peter Pan, The Three Musketeers
    Kenneth Grahame , Lewis Carroll , J.M. Barrie , Alexandre Dumas
    9780812984477
    Ebook
    Jul 23, 2012
    Modern Library
    The Count of Monte Cristo
    The Count of Monte Cristo
    Alexandre Dumas
    9780140373530
    $9.99 US
    Paperback
    Aug 01, 1996
    Puffin Books
    The Three Musketeers
    The Three Musketeers
    An Abridgement by Lord Sudley
    Alexandre Dumas
    9780140367478
    $8.99 US
    Paperback
    Nov 01, 1995
    Puffin Books

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    The Modern Library Collection Children's Classics 5-Book Bundle
    The Modern Library Collection Children's Classics 5-Book Bundle
    The Wind in the Willows, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Peter Pan, The Three Musketeers
    Kenneth Grahame, Lewis Carroll, J.M. Barrie, Alexandre Dumas
    9780812984477
    $3.99 US
    Ebook
    Jul 23, 2012
    Modern Library
    The Count of Monte Cristo
    The Count of Monte Cristo
    Alexandre Dumas
    9780140373530
    $9.99 US
    Paperback
    Aug 01, 1996
    Puffin Books
    The Three Musketeers
    The Three Musketeers
    An Abridgement by Lord Sudley
    Alexandre Dumas
    9780140367478
    $8.99 US
    Paperback
    Nov 01, 1995
    Puffin Books

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