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