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　　Dumas's most popular novel has long been a favorite with children, and its swashbuckling heroes are well known from many a film and TV adaptation. Set in 17th-century France, this tale of the adventures of D'Artagnan and the three musketeers is the finest example of its author's brilliantly inventive storytelling genius.

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　　Alexandre Dumas (père) lived a life as romantic as thatdepicted in his famous novels. He was born on July 24,1802, atVillers-Cotterêts, France, the son of Napoleon’s famous mulattogeneral, Dumas, His early education was scanty, but his beautifulhandwriting secured him a position in Paris in 1822 with thedu’Orléans, where he read voraciously and began to write. His firstplay, Henri III et sa cour (1829), scored a resounding success forits author and for the romantic movement. Numerous dramaticsuccesses followed (including the melodrama Kean , later adapted byJean-Paul Satre), and so did numerous mistresses and adventures. Hetook part in the revolution of 1830 and caught cholera during theepidemic of 1832, fathered two illegitimate children by twodifferent mistresses, and then married still another mistress. (Thefirst of these two children, Alexandre Dumas, [fils], became afamous author also,) His lavish spending and flamboyant habits ledto the construction of his fabulous Ch?teau de Monte-Christo, andin 1851 he fled to Belgium to escape creditors. He died on December5, 1870, bankrupt but still cheerful, saying of death, “I shalltell her a story, and she will be kind to me.”

<p>　　Alexandre Dumas (père) lived a life as romantic as that
depicted in his famous novels. He was born on July 24,1802, at
Villers-Cotterêts, France, the son of Napoleon’s famous mulatto
general, Dumas, 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. His first
play, Henri III et sa cour (1829), scored a resounding success for
its author and for the romantic movement. Numerous dramatic
successes followed (including the melodrama Kean , later adapted by
Jean-Paul Satre), and so did numerous mistresses and adventures. He
took part in the revolution of 1830 and caught cholera during the
epidemic of 1832, fathered two illegitimate children by two
different mistresses, and then married still another mistress. (The
first of these two children, Alexandre Dumas, [fils], became a
famous author also,) His lavish spending and flamboyant habits led
to the construction of his fabulous Ch?teau de Monte-Christo, and
in 1851 he fled to Belgium to escape creditors. He died on December
5, 1870, bankrupt but still cheerful, saying of death, “I shall
tell her a story, and she will be kind to me.”<br />
　　Dumas’s overall literary output reached over 277 volumes, but his
brilliant historical novels made him the most universally read of
all French novelists. With collaborators, mainly Auguste Maquet,
Dumas wrote such works as The Three Musketeer (1843-44); its
sequels, Twenty Years After (1845) and the great mystery The Man in
the Iron Mask (1845-50); and The Count of Monte Cristo (1844).
L’action and l’amour were the two essential things in life and his
fiction. He declared he “elevated history to the dignity of the
novel” by means of love affairs, intrigues, imprisonments,
hairbreadth escapes, and duels. His work ignored historical
accuracy, Psychology, and analysis, but its thrilling adventure and
exuberant inventiveness continue to delight readers, and Dumas
remains one of the prodigies of nineteenth-century French
literature.<br />
　　From the Paperback edition.</p>

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　　"I do not say there is no character as well-drawn in Shakespeare [as D'Artagnan]. I do say there is none that I love so wholly."
　　—Robert Louis Stevenson
　　From the Paperback edition.

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