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...
Twenty Years After (Vingt ans après) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. This sequel to The Three Musketeers and a book of the so-called D'Artagnan Romances (the third and last book being The Vicomte de Bragelonne, including the famous volume, The...
Looking back at The Writer on Her Work In 1978, I went looking for a book. In conversations with other women writers, I'd become aware of a new desire to link our lives and our writing, to connect personal experience with speculative thinking....
An Assessment of Fiscal Policy The combination of the Great Depression and the Keynesian revolution stripped most economists and politicians of their belief in the stability of the private economy and legitimized the use of stabilization policies to counteract macroeconomic fluctuations. Such policies...
Twenty years after her allegations of a racially charged rape became a national flashpoint, Tawana Brawley's mother and stepfather want to reopen the case, a newspaper reported Sunday.Glenda Brawley and Ralph King want to press Gov. Eliot Spitzer and state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to...
Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich announced his candidacy for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination back in December. He is now in his sixth term in the House of Representatives and is currently chairman of the Domestic Policy Subcommittee of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform....
