Introduction
Popular in his own time, Dumas has remained a favorite storyteller among generations of readers throughout the world. His best-known works are the novels Les trois mousquetaires (1844; The Three Musketeers; or, The Feats and Fortunes of a Gascon Adventurer) and Le comte de Monte-Cristo (1845; The Count of Monte Cristo), adventure stories that abound with swordfights, lavish costumes, beautiful women, and narrow escapes. But these represent a minute portion of writings produced by this enormously prolific author, whose published novels, plays, stories, essays, and other works number in the hundreds. -- Alexandre Dumas Criticism
Recommended Resources
All Resources by Category
- Art and Literature
- Articles
- The Oxford Companion to English Literature Article on Alexandre Dumas
- The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare Article on Alexandre Dumas
- Biography
- Criticism
- Alexandre Dumas - Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism
- Alexandre Dumas Censorship
- Critical Survey of Drama
- Critical Survey of Long Fiction
- Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction
- Memoirs of a Physician - Literary Characters
- Memoirs of a Physician - Literary Places
- The Chevalier de Maison-Rouge - Literary Characters
- The Chevalier de Maison-Rouge - Literary Places
- The Corsican Brothers - Literary Characters
- The Corsican Brothers - Literary Places
- The Queen's Necklace - Literary Characters
- The Three Musketeers - Literary Characters
- The Three Musketeers - Literary Places
- The Vicomte de Bragelonne - Literary Characters
- The Wold-Leader - Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature
- Twenty Years After - Literary Characters
- Films
- Camille (1936)
- Queen Margot (1994)
- The Corsican Brothers (1942)
- The Count of Monte Cristo (1912)
- The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)
- The Count of Monte Cristo (1974)
- The Count of Monte Cristo (1999)
- The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
- The Iron Mask (1929)
- The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)
- The Return of the Musketeers (1989)
- The Three Musketeers (1921)
- Lesson Plans
- Quotations
- Reviews
- Study Guides
