The complete online text of Karl Ludwig Sand by Alexandre Dumas, père.

Alexandre Dumas (1803-1870), the prolific French author of plays, popular romances, and historical novels, wrote The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. Alexandre Dumas is generally called Dumas père to distinguish him from his illustr...

Despite their unflagging worldwide popularity, their perennial availability, and their innumerable cinematographic adaptations, the works of Alexandre Dumas père have been largely unappreciated by critics. There has been, for some time now, a spec...

The dramatic writings of Alexandre Dumas père, long absent from publishers' booklists and often granted little more than la portion congrue (an extremely small place) in critical assessments of his literary corpus, seem today to be experiencing so...

Ludwig Karl Ratschiller, a man with many friends and an excellent geologist, died March 27, 2004, after a courageous struggle with cancer. He was born in 1921 in Brixen, Italy, the son of a Tyrolese father and a Polish mother. As a native Tyrolean,...

PAID OBITUARIES Karl E. Ludwig, 49, of 926 Walnut St., Reading, formerly of New Holland, died unexpectedly at his home on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2005. Born in Lancaster, he was the son of Mabel Sensenig Ludwig of New Holland and the late Rev. George...