The complete online text of Quotes and Images from Celebrated Crimes 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...

Entertainment history was made on March 24, 2002, when Denzel Washington and Halle Berry became the first African Americans to walk away with Best Actor and Best Actress Oscars on the same night. Berry was the first African American ever to win an Academy...

A discrete image of several colors is viewed as a discrete random field obtained by clipping or quantizing a Gaussian random field at several levels. Given a discrete image, parameters of the unobserved original Gaussian random field are estimated. Discrete images, statistically similar...