His work ignored historical accuracy, psychology, and analysis, but its thrilling adventure and exuberant inventiveness continued to delight readers, and Dumas remains one of the prodigies of nineteenth-century French literature. With collaborators, mainly Auguste Maquet, Dumas wrote such works as The Three Musketeers (1843-1844) its sequels, Twenty Years After (1845) and the great mystery The Man in the Iron Mask (1845-1850) and The Count of Monte Cristo (1844). Buy The Count of Monte Cristo (abridged) (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Alexandre Dumas, Luc Sante from Waterstones today. Dumas's overall literary output reached more than 277 volumes, but his brilliant historical novels made him the most universally read of all French novelists. The writing of the work was completed in 1844. It is often considered, along with The Three Musketeers, as Dumass most popular work.
His lavish spending and flamboyant habits led to the construction of his fabulous Château de Monte-Cristo, and in 1851 he fled to Belgium to escape creditors. The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. His first play, Henri III et sa cour (1829), scored a resounding success for its author and the romantic movement. His early education was scanty, but his beautiful handwriting secured him a position in Paris in 1822 with the du'Orléans, where he read voraciously and began to write. The historical setting is a fundamental element of the book, an adventure story centrally concerned with themes of hope, justice, vengeance, mercy, and. He was born in Villers-Cotterêts, France. Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) lived a life as romantic as that depicted in his famous novels.
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