Stock # A3110 - The Romances of Alexandre Dumas
Complete 32 Volume Limited Edition Set
Number 415 of 1000
Louvre Edition
Published in 1903
A great addition to your library!
The set includes:
The Two Dianas, Volumes I-II; The Page of the Duke of Savory; La Dame of Monsoreau; The Forty-Five; Three Musketeers, Volumes I-II;
Twenty Years After, Volumes I-II; Vicomte De Bragelonne,Volumes I-IV; Chevalier D'Harmental; The Regent's Daughter;
Olympe De Cleves, Volumes I-II; Memoirs of a Physician, Volumes I-III; The Queens Necklace, Volumes I-II; Ange Pitou, Volumes I-II;
Comtesse De Charny, Volumes I-III; Chevalier De Maison Rougwe; The Count of Monte Cristo, Volumes I-III.
Books are generally in very good condition.
They present with some wear and yellowing consistent with age and some nicks and bumps.
Each book is approximately 8.5" high x 5.75" wide x 1.5" thick
About the Author - Alexandre Dumas (24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870)
Alexandre Dumas was born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, he was also known as Alexandre Dumas père (French for 'father'), was a French writer.
His works have been translated into many languages, and he is one of the most widely read French authors.
Many of his historical novels of high adventure were originally published as serials, including The Count of Monte Cristo,
The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later.
His novels have been adapted since the early twentieth century for nearly 200 films.
Dumas' last novel, The Knight of Sainte-Hermine, unfinished at his death, was completed by scholar Claude Schopp and
published in 2005. It was published in English in 2008 as The Last Cavalier.
Prolific in several genres, Dumas began his career by writing plays, which were successfully produced from the first.
He also wrote numerous magazine articles and travel books; his published works total led 100,000 pages.
In the 1840s, Dumas founded the Théâtre Historique in Paris.
His father, General Thomas-Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie, was born in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) to
Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie, a French nobleman, and Marie-Cessette Dumas, a slave of African descent.
At age 14 Thomas-Alexandre was taken by his father to France, where he was educated in a military academy and
entered the military for what became an illustrious career.
Dumas' father's aristocratic rank helped young Alexandre acquire work with Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orléans.
He later began working as a writer, finding early success.
Decades later, with the election of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte in 1851,
Dumas fell from favor and left France for Belgium, where he stayed for several years.
Upon leaving Belgium, Dumas moved to Russia for a few years before going to Italy.
In 1861, he founded and published the newspaper L'Indipendente, which supported the Italian unification effort.
In 1864, he returned to Paris.
Though married, in the tradition of Frenchmen of higher social class, Dumas had numerous affairs (allegedly as many as forty).
In his lifetime, he was known to have at least four illegitimate children;
although twentieth-century scholars found that Dumas fathered another three other children out of wedlock.
He acknowledged and assisted his son, Alexandre Dumas, to become a successful novelist and playwright.
They are known as Alexandre Dumas père ('father') and Alexandre Dumas fils ('son').
Among his affairs, in 1866, Dumas had one with Adah Isaacs Menken, an American actress then less than half his age and at the height of her career.
The English playwright Watts Phillips, who knew Dumas in his later life, described him as "the most generous,
large-hearted being in the world. He also was the most delightfully amusing and egotistical creature on the face of the earth.
His tongue was like a windmill – once set in motion, you never knew when he would stop, especially if the theme was himself."