The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo
Edmond Dantès is imprisoned on a false charge and comes back, years later, with a new name and a plan. Dumas makes patience itself into an adventure.
Author
Alexandre Dumas
Dumas built The Count of Monte Cristo on wrongful imprisonment, patience, and a fortune used as a plot. It is a long entertainment that keeps its eye on revenge as a life’s work.
The black tulip
The black tulip
The Black Tulip is a historical novel and a work of Romantic poetry written by Alexandre Dumas, père, and first published.
The Vicomte de Bragelonne
The Vicomte de Bragelonne
The Vicomte de Bragelonne is the third and last of The d'Artagnan Romances, following The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After. The Vicomte de Bragelonne appeared first in serial form.
The Companions of Jehu
The Companions of Jehu
It is inspired by the story of the Companions of Jehu, a group of Royalist vigilantes during the French Revolution. The Companions of Jehu was also turned into a play by Dumas and Charles Gabet premiering at the Théâtre de la Gaîté on 2 July.
The queen's necklace
The queen's necklace
The queen's necklace is loosely based on the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, an episode involving fraud and royal scandal that made headlines at the court of Louis XVI in the 1780s.
The regent's daughter
The regent's daughter
The regent's daughter has sometimes been subtitled as a sequel to The Conspirators.
Le chevalier de Maison-Rouge
Le chevalier de Maison-Rouge
Le chevalier de Maison-Rouge was translated into English in under the title The Knight of Redcastle. Le chevalier de Maison-Rouge has also been translated as The Knight of Maison-Rouge: A Novel of Marie Antoinette.