Dumas's The Man in the Iron Mask (1848- 1850) tells the tale of a mysterious political prisoner in the late 1600s.

Dumas's Twenty Years After (1845) is a sequel to The Three Musketeers and continues the story of d'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis.

In Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo (1844- 1845), Edmond Dantes is falsely accused of treason and arrested on his wedding day. He escapes to seek revenge.

Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831), set in fifteenth-century Paris, tells the story of a deformed bell-ringer who falls in love with a beautiful woman.

Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera (1910) is the tale of a disfigured man who falls in love with a beautiful singer.