The Black Count

Glory, revolution, betrayal and the real Count of Monte Cristo

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2013<br><br>'Completely absorbing' <br>Amanda Foreman<br><br>'Enthralling' <br>Guardian<br>'The Three Musketeers! The Count of Monte Cristo! The stories of course<br>are fiction. But here a prize-winning author shows us that the inspiration for<br>the swashbuckling stories was, in fact, Dumas's own father, Alex - the son<br>of a marquis and a black slave... He achieved a giddy ascent from private<br>in the Dragoons to the rank of general; an outsider who had grown up<br>among slaves, he was all for Liberty and Equality. Alex Dumas was the<br>stuff of legend' <br>Daily Mail<br><br>So how did such this extraordinary man get erased by history? Why are<br>there no statues of 'Monsieur Humanity' as his troops called him? The<br>Black Count uncovers what happened and the role Napoleon played in<br>Dumas's downfall. By walking the same ground as Dumas - from Haiti to<br>the Pyramids, Paris to the prison cell at Taranto - Reiss, like the novelist<br>before him, triumphantly resurrects this forgotten hero.<br><br>'Entrances from first to last. Dumas the novelist would be proud'<br>Independent<br><br>'Brilliant' Glasgow Herald

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780099575139

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

199 x 128 x 35 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Verlag / Hersteller

Sourcebooks Casablanca