Wall Street Journal

Fiction: ‘The Man in the Iron Mask’

The literary output of Alexandre Dumas père (1802-70) is so prodigious that it makes a mockery of attempts to enumerate it. Editions of his complete works—which include plays, poetry, history, travel ...
The Washington Post

If you only know ‘The Three Musketeers,’ you owe yourself the pleasure of its sequel, ‘Twenty Years After’

Swordplay, romantic intrigue, comic escapades and desperate undertakings — Alexandre Dumas’ 1844 novel, “The Three Musketeers,” long ago set the standard for swashbuckling adventure. Even now, the ...
The Atlantic

Alexandre Dumas

IN 1891 Mr. Davidson published two small volumes of extracts from Dumas’s Memoirs; but the complete work now appears in English for the first time. 1 Mrs. Waller, the translator, her publishers, and ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Real Count of Monte Cristo Was Alexandre Dumas’s Father, a Trailblazing Black General

Ahead of the March 22 premiere of a new TV adaptation, learn about the life of Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, the French Army officer who inspired the beloved novel Based on a True Story Joel Sams No one ...