Name: Ange Pitou (in French)
SKU: 60508542
Price: 31.96 EUR
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Author: Alejandro Dumas
ISBN: 9781530864362

Type

Physical Book

Author

Alejandro Dumas

Publisher

Createspace

Language

French

Pages

384

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x2 cm

Weight

0.51 kg.

ISBN13

9781530864362

Synopsis "Ange Pitou (in French)"

Alexandre Dumas (dit aussi Alexandre Dumas pere) est un ecrivain francais ne le 24 juillet 1802 a Villers-Cotterets (Aisne) et mort le 5 decembre 1870 a Puys, pres de Dieppe (Seine-Maritime). Il est le fils de Thomas Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie, dit le general Dumas, et le pere de l'ecrivain Alexandre Dumas (1824-1895) dit Dumas fils, auteur en particulier de La Dame aux camelias. Proche des romantiques et tourne vers le theatre, Alexandre Dumas ecrit d'abord des vaudevilles a succes et des drames historiques comme Henri III et sa cour (1829), La Tour de Nesle (1832), Kean (1836). Auteur prolifique, il s'oriente ensuite vers le roman historique telles que la trilogie Les Trois Mousquetaires (1844), Vingt ans apres (1845) et Le Vicomte de Bragelonne (1847), ou encore Le Comte de Monte-Cristo (1844 -1846) et La Reine Margot (1845). La paternite de certaines de ses uvres lui est contestee. Dumas fut ainsi soupconne par plusieurs critiques de son epoque d'avoir eu recours a des negres litteraires, notamment Auguste Maquet. Toutefois les recherches contemporaines ont montre que Dumas avait mis en place une veritable cooperation avec ce dernier: Dumas s'occupait de choisir le theme general et modifiait les ebauches de Maquet pour les rendre plus dynamiques. On ne peut donc lui nier la paternite de son uvre, meme s'il a ete aide."

Alejandro Dumas

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Alexandre Dumas is one of the most prolific and popular authors from France. He was born in 1802 in the city of Villers-Cotterets, and soon moved to Paris to work as a secretary for the Duke of Orléans. There, he completed his education on his own and began to take an interest in writing.
He started by writing plays, and then moved on to poems and long stories. However, his real success did not come until 1844, the year he released the work that would catapult him to fame: The Three Musketeers. The serial publication of this novel brought him a huge sum of money, but it also meant countless hours of work, many collaborators, and the production of up to eighty installments to meet the growing public demand.
After the publication of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, Dumas amassed a great fortune. However, his hedonistic nature led him to squander all he had earned and he soon found himself forced to exile in Belgium to escape his French creditors.
The Count of Monte Cristo, the pinnacle of the author's narrative, is considered one of the greatest adventure novels of all time.

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