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...
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."--Antoine de Saint-Exupery When I was a child growing up in The Netherlands, I often begged my mother to tell me this story about an...
Black tulip still a dream By JOAN JACKSON Knight Ridder News Service Sunday, February 13, 2000 Except for black aphid on plums and black spot on roses, the color black gets little attention in the garden. But Dutch hybridizers...