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Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
Crown trade
September 2012
On Sale: September 18, 2012
432 pages
ISBN: 030738246X
EAN: 9780307382467
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Here is the remarkable true story of the real Count of Monte
Cristo – a stunning feat of historical sleuthing that brings
to life the forgotten hero who inspired such classics as
The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three
Musketeers. The real-life protagonist of The Black Count, General Alex
Dumas, is a man almost unknown today yet with a story that
is strikingly familiar, because his son, the novelist
Alexandre Dumas, used it to create some of the best loved
heroes of literature. Yet, hidden behind these swashbuckling adventures was an
even more incredible secret: the real hero was the son of a
black slave -- who rose higher in the white world than any
man of his race would before our own time. Born in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), Alex Dumas was briefly
sold into bondage but made his way to Paris where he was
schooled as a sword-fighting member of the French
aristocracy. Enlisting as a private, he rose to command
armies at the height of the Revolution, in an audacious
campaign across Europe and the Middle East – until he met an
implacable enemy he could not defeat. The Black Count is simultaneously a riveting adventure
story, a lushly textured evocation of 18th-century France,
and a window into the modern world’s first multi-racial
society. But it is also a heartbreaking story of the
enduring bonds of love between a father and son.
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