The Black Count : glory, revolution, betrayal, and the real Count of Monte Cristo / Tom Reiss ; [maps by David Lindroth Inc.].
Reiss, Tom.; David Lindroth Inc.
2012
DC146.D83 R46 2012 (Mapit)
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Title
The Black Count : glory, revolution, betrayal, and the real Count of Monte Cristo / Tom Reiss ; [maps by David Lindroth Inc.].
Author
Reiss, Tom.
ISBN
9780307382467
030738246X
Publication Details
New York : Crown Trade, 2012.
Language
English
Description
ix, 414 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Call Number
DC146.D83 R46 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
944.04092 B
Summary
Explores the life and career of Thomas Alexandre Dumas, a man almost unknown today, but whose swashbuckling exploits appear in The three musketeers and whose trials and triumphs inspired The count of Monte Cristo.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-403) and index.
Awards
Pultizer Prize, 2013.
Added Corporate Author
David Lindroth Inc.
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Prologue, part 1 : February 26, 1806
Prologue, part 2 : January 25, 2007
The sugar factory
The Black Code
Norman Conquest
"No one is a slave in France"
Americans in Paris
Black Count in the City of Light
A queen's dragoon
Summers of revolution
"Regeneration by blood"
"The black heart also beats for liberty"
"Mr. Humanity"
The battle for the top of the world
The bottom of the Revolution
The siege
The Black Devil
Leader of the expedition
"The delirium of his republicanism"
Dreams on fire
Prisoner of the Holy Faith Army
"Citizeness Dumas...is worried about the fate of her husband"
The dungeon
Wait and hope
The forgotten statue.

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