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. The historical setting is a fundamental element of the book, an adventure story centrally concerned with themes of hope, justice, vengeance, mercy, and. 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). 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. 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. 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. He was born in Villers-Cotterêts, France.
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO (ABRIDGED VERSION) Name: Davis Gray CHAPTER ONE Know the. Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) lived a life as romantic as that depicted in his famous novels. View image.jpg from LITERATURE 9TH GRADE at Eden Christian Academy.
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