Alexandre Dumas
Born
in Villers-Cotterêts, Aisne, France
July 24, 1802
Died
December 05, 1870
Genre
Influences
Walter Scott, Lord Byron, Hector Berlioz
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The Count of Monte Cristo
19 editions
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1844
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The Three Musketeers
1466 editions
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1844
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The Man in the Iron Mask
35 editions
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1850
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Twenty Years After (The d'Artagnan Romances, #2)
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878 editions
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1845
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The Black Tulip
1395 editions
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published
1850
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The Prince of Thieves
84 editions
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published
1862
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Queen Margot
598 editions
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published
1845
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Le Comte de Monte-Cristo I (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, #1 of 2)
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152 editions
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1844
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Le Comte de Monte-Cristo II (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo #2 of 2)
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421 editions
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1844
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The Vicomte de Bragelonne (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.1)
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384 editions
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1847
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“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
" Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”
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" Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”
―
“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
Polls
December 2017 Old School Poll
The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas 1850, 246 pages
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi 1883, 262 pages
The Art of War by Sun Tzu -500, 273 pages
Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos 1782, 448 pages
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain 1889, 480 pages
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs 1861, 176 pages
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 1855, 624 pages
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche 1883, 327 pages
Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac 1834, 370 pages
A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov 1840, 185 pages
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