Alexandre Dumas
Nato: July 24, 1802 – Villers-Cotterêts, Aisne, France
Alexandre Dumas was a French novelist and dramatist best known for historical adventure fiction, especially The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. A prolific 19th-century author, he also wrote plays and travel works; his novels have been translated widely and adapted into hundreds of films, television series, and stage productions.
Biografia e Percorso dell'Autore
Alexandre Dumas, known as Dumas père, was born in 1802 in Villers-Cotterêts, France, into a family whose history connected provincial France, Caribbean slavery, and the French Revolution. His father, General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, had risen to prominence in the revolutionary armies before dying when his son was still young, leaving the family in reduced circumstances. That loss shaped Dumas’s ambition and sharpened his appetite for advancement. His formal schooling was limited, but he read widely, absorbed history with unusual ease, and developed the polished handwriting that helped him obtain clerical work after moving to Paris in the 1820s. In Paris, he entered a world of theaters, salons, and political excitement that would define his career.
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"Alexandre Dumas was one of the most prolific and most popular French authors of the 19th century"
— Britannica
"Dumas stands proudly in the pantheon of 19th-century greats"
— Glasgow Herald
"No novelist since Dumas has been more irreverent of the conventions of well-made fiction"
— Terrence Rafferty
"Alexandre Dumas is more than French, he is European; he's more than European, he is universal"
— Victor Hugo
"Dumas's books are fast-moving page-turners; vivid, bombastic and irresistible"
— Irish Times
"If there can be said to have been a French Shakespeare, it was Dumas"
— Blaze de Bury
"If Dumas was a hack, he was a hack with genius"
— The New York Times
"Dumas does dialogue like a scriptwriter on nitrous oxide"
— Scotland on Sunday