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Author Reiss, Tom, author.

Title The Black Count : glory, revolution, betrayal, and the real Count of Monte Cristo / Tom Reiss.

Publication Info. New York : Broadway Books, [2012]
©2012

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection Harmon  944.04 D891Br 2012    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition 1st pbk. ed.
Description ix, 414 pages : maps ; 21 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-403) and index.
Contents Prologue, part 1 : February 26, 1806 -- Prologue, part 2 : January 25, 2007 -- The sugar factory -- The Black Code -- Norman Conquest -- "No one is a slave in France" -- Americans in Paris -- Black Count in the City of Light -- A queen's dragoon -- Summers of revolution -- "Regeneration by blood" -- "The black heart also beats for liberty" -- "Mr. Humanity" -- The battle for the top of the world -- The bottom of the Revolution -- The siege -- The Black Devil -- Leader of the expedition -- "The delirium of his republicanism" -- Dreams on fire -- Prisoner of the Holy Faith Army -- "Citizeness Dumas -- is worried about the fate of her husband" -- the dungeon -- Wait and hope -- The forgotten statue.
Summary Explores the life and career of Thomas Alexandre Dumas, a man almost unknown today, but whose swashbuckling exploits appear in The three musketeers and whose trials and triumphs inspired The count of Monte Cristo.
Awards Pulitzer Prize in Biography, 2013.
Outstanding Books for the College Bound and Lifelong Learners 2014.
Subject Dumas, Thomas Alexandre, 1762-1806.
Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870 -- Family.
France. Armée -- Biography.
Generals -- France -- Biography.
France -- History, Military -- 1789-1815.
Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870. (OCoLC)fst00033943
Dumas, Thomas Alexandre, 1762-1806. (OCoLC)fst00018058
France. Armée. (OCoLC)fst00539214
Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
Generals. (OCoLC)fst00939841
France. (OCoLC)fst01204289
Chronological Term 1789-1815
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Military history. (OCoLC)fst01411630
Biographies.
Added Title Glory, revolution, betrayal, and the real Count of Monte Cristo
ISBN 0307382478 (paperback)
9780307382474 (paperback)
9780307952950 (ebook)
0307952959
Standard No. 9985496

 
    
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