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The Black Count [electronic resource] : glory, revolution, betrayal, and the real Count of Monte Cristo / Tom Reiss.

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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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780307952950
ISBN: 0307952959
Physical Description: 1 online resource (414 pages) : map.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Crown Pub., [2012]
Copyright: ©2012

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [387]-403) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Prologue, part 1 : February 26, 1807 -- 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.
Awards Note:	Pulitzer Prize for Biography, 2013.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.