The Count of Monte' Cristo: Tome I Paperback - 2014

Alexandre Dumas (also called Alexandre Dumas) is a French writer born July 24, 1802 in Villers-Cotterets (Aisne), died December 5, 1870 at Puys, near Dieppe (Seine-Maritime). He is the son of Thomas Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie, said General Dumas, mulatto from Santo Domingo, the first general with Afro-Caribbean origins of the French army, and the father of the writer Alexandre Dumas (1824-1895 ) said Dumas son, particular author of La Dame aux camellias. Close romantic and turned to the theater, Alexandre Dumas wrote the first successful comedies and historical dramas like Henri III and his court (1829), The Tower of Nesle (1832), Kean (1836). A prolific writer, he then turned to the historical novel trilogy such as The Three Musketeers (1844) Twenty years later (1845) and The Vicomte de Bragelonne (1847) or The Count of Monte Cristo (1844 -1846 ) and La Reine Margot (1845). Authorship of some of his works he is challenged. Dumas was thus suspected by many critics of his era have used literary negroes, especially Auguste Maquet. However, contemporary research has shown that Dumas had established effective cooperation with the latter Dumas took care to choose the overall theme and modified the draft Maquet to make them more dynamic. We can not therefore deny the authorship of his work, although he was helped.