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.
關於作者：
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.”
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.
From the Paperback edition.
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