Dumas Born: Adventure's Greatest Storyteller Arrives
Alexandre Dumas became the most widely read French author of his century by turning history into breathless adventure in The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. His serialized novels, often produced with uncredited collaborators at industrial speed, sold in quantities that made him fabulously wealthy and perpetually bankrupt. The grandson of a Haitian slave, he achieved literary fame in a society that openly questioned his racial background.
July 24, 1802
224 years ago
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