VANINKA
About the end of the reign of the Emperor Paul I—­that
is to say, towards the middle of the first year of
the nineteenth century—­just as four o’clock
in the afternoo...
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Alexandre Dumas (1803-1870), the prolific French author of plays, popular romances, and historical novels, wrote The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo.Alexandre Dumas is generally called ...
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Towards the end of his ebullient and prolific career, Alexandre Dumas took pen in hand not to dash off one more spell-binding drama or history-filled epic, but to complain to the Emperor of rough hand...
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Despite their unflagging worldwide popularity, their perennial availability, and their innumerable cinematographic adaptations, the works of Alexandre Dumas père have been largely unappreciated...
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The dramatic writings of Alexandre Dumas père, long absent from publishers' booklists and often granted little more than la portion congrue (an extremely small place) in critical assessments o...
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