The Count of Montecristo

By Alexandre Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo is a classic adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet. The latter did not appear in the title of the work as Alexandre Dumas paid a large sum of money to make it so.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Alexandre Dumas
• Release date: Mar 24, 2016
• ISBN: 9788892580558

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas was born in 1802. After a childhood of extreme poverty, he took work as a clerk, and met the renowned actor Talma, and began to write short pieces for the theatre. After twenty years of success as a playwright, Dumas turned his hand to novel-writing, and penned such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo (1844), La Reine Margot (1845) and The Black Tulip (1850). After enduring a short period of bankruptcy, Dumas began to travel extensively, still keeping up a prodigious output of journalism, short fiction and novels. He fathered an illegitimate child, also called Alexandre, who would grow up to write La Dame aux Camélias. He died in Dieppe in 1870.