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Alexandre Dumas

About the Author

Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) was a French novelist best known for The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. The grandson of a marquis and the son of a famous general, Dumas was a prolific playwright, travel writer, and head of a production studio who chose his enslaved grandmother’s surname for his professional nom de plume.

The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

Classic Starts®: The Three Musketeers

Classic Starts®: The Three Musketeers

by Alexandre Dumas, Abridged by Oliver Ho, Illustrated by Karl James Mountford

The Count of Monte Cristo SparkNotes Literature Guide

The Count of Monte Cristo SparkNotes Literature Guide

by SparkNotes, by Alexandre Dumas

Classic Starts®: The Man in the Iron Mask

Classic Starts®: The Man in the Iron Mask

by Alexandre Dumas, Abridged by Oliver Ho, Illustrated by Troy Howell, Afterword by Arthur Pober