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Bezig met laden... Alexandre Dumas, the king of romancedoor F. W. J. Hemmings
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I loved the Three Musketeers when I was in the 5th grade and got a classic comics to help understand it. Now learning about the author is facinating. His Caribbean origins (Dumas was the name of his slave mother), the fact he started with theater, moved into travel books, built a wonderful house and theater, then loss them to debt. Well written, good read ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
The last of Alexandre Dumas's many mistresses, the American actress Adah Menken, called him "the king of romance." She was not thinking only of his immensely popular novelsThe Three Musketeers andThe Count of Monte Cristo - everything about Dumas was touched with the spirit of romance, and it is that spirit which this exhilarating biography captures. There was romance in Dumas's origins. He grew up in the country, the son of a general who fought under Napoleon in Egypt and Italy and whose own parents were a French marquis and a slave from Haiti. As a boy, Dumas's closest friends were local poachers and a gardener whom he once watched cut open a grass snake to liberate a frog. The world was full of magical possibilities, and, in his twenties, after moving to Paris and working as a clerk under the Duc d'Orleans, Dumas established himself, with Victor Hugo, as one of the leading Romantic playwrights. In its scope and richness, Dumas's life bears comparison to those of his fictional heroes. Drawing on Dumas's memoirs and surviving correspondence, Professor Hemmings constructs a fascinating story, first published in 1979, of a writer whose novels continue to excite our imagination. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)843.7Literature French French fiction Constitutional monarchy 1815–48LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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