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Alexandre Dumas

France : Great Novelist

Birth : 1802       Death : 1870

As the author of the tremendously popular novel, The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas is well known all over the world. This literary masterpiece of Dumas had gained immense popularity not only in his own country, France, but also in many other countries of the world. In this novel, the art of story telling of Dumas rises to its perfection. Another famous novel of Dumas is The Count of Monte Cristo on which several films have been made. Black Tulip is a memorable novel for its beautiful presentation and minuteness of the subject matter. The Man in the Iron Mask is yet another important novel of Dumas.

A distinctive feature of Dumas as a novelist is that he successfully romanticises the past in his novels. The Three Musketeers is also a historical novel of this sort. Dumas’s novels offered a pleasing reading because they are full of adventures and thrills. Besides there is a social purpose also as in his novels. Dumas lashes out at the conservatism and religious hypocrisies prevailing in society. Though the main purpose of Dumas’s novels remains to provide entertainment, yet, there is no dearth of thought provoking material in them. In The Count of Monte Cristo the tragic aspects of the life of a clergyman and an another innocent man have been underlined. The Three Musketeers is an amusing tale of the warriors who struggle for the sake of truth. Dumas’s superb narrative power entitles him a place among the foremost story-tellers of the world.