What is the best novel written by Alexandre Dumas?

Question

I really think like "The Count of Monte Cristo" and I really want to read "The Three Muskeeters"

Answer 1

I read the abridged version of The Count of Monte Cristo "for fun" when I was a freshman in college...and I loved it. I had no idea I was reading the abridged version though. Years later, probably six years later, I found the unabridged book in two volumes...it was very long...quite an undertaking really...but it was worth every bit of effort!! I loved that book.

I read The Three Musketeers as well. I enjoyed it a lot. I had seen at least two or three movies of it, but it was great to read it. I knew there were several sequels, but I never got around to reading them.

I want to say I read one or two more Dumas or Dumas Jr. books that I checked out of the library...but I can't remember their titles offhand. But I remember liking them at the time. I went through a phase--during the summer between semesters--where I read only French authors, I read as many Alexandre Dumas books as I could...I read Cyrano de Bergerac...I read all of Les Miserables...anyway it was an enjoyable summer...and I would recommend most of his works.

Answer 2

Alexandre Dumas Novels

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Books By Alexandre Dumas

Answer 4

Since when have novels been written almost exclusively by men? There have been women novelists ever since novel writing began. Many of the most popular novelists of the 19th century were women. Jane Austen, the Brontes, Mrs Gaskell, George Eliot, Harriet Beecher Stow, Mrs Oliphant, and loads of others who are no longer read much today but werre enormously popular in their time. I find Dickens heavy going on the whole, but I like Great Expectations better than most of his other novels. His heroines are generally rather irritating, too good and virtuous and long-suffering to be true, but Estella is rather more interesting and complex than his average heroine. And there are some great female characters, like Aunt Betsy Trotwood in 'David Copperfield' for instance. There are quite a lot of silly women and shrews as well. His view of women was probably rather mixed. Arthur Conan Doyle doesn't really do memorable female characters. Mark Twain doesn't have many either. Alexander Dumas has some good female characters, though his most memorable woman is probably the arch-villain Milady de Winter in The Three Musketeers. There's some good female characters in War and Peace.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

The Count of Monte Cristo was my introduction to classic literature many years ago when I was 10. My mother had to take the book away from me late at night or I would have read it through nonstop and I was reading the unabridged version so would have been up for quite awhile. :) It will always be my favorite book of all time since it was my first but I enjoy the other Dumas books a great deal and have read them all over and over.

Answer 7

First of all, not to be down on you for your misconceptions, Alexander Dumas never wrote any books. He owned a publishing house and he stocked the place with indentured scribes. He would come up with an idea and a premise and tell the scribes to each write a chapter and he would review and edit the pieces as they were completed. When the work was finalized, since he was the publishing house owner and indentured persons could not own anything until their debts were paid off he signed his name to the completed work. That is why most people allude to him as the author. In my humble opinion tho, the best work his publishing house turned out was 'The Count Of Monte Cristo'.

Answer 8

Defenitely Count of Montecristo.Try Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini.Its even better than count of montecristo.

Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini.When his best friend, a young clergyman, is killed in a mockery of a duel by an arrogant noble, just to quiet his eloquent expressions of democratic ideals, Andre-Louis Moreau vows revenge. From that point, through meteoric careers as a consummate actor and scenario writer, then as a fencing master, and finally a politician, the brilliant Moreau keeps thwarting the aims of the aristocratic Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr. However, the nobleman causes pain to Moreau as well, and the time must come when the two will meet to settle their enmity once and for all. You are not likely to guess how their confrontation finally turns out. Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, this swashbuckling novel is exciting throughout, and it presents one of the most dashing heroes in fiction, a man who can fight equally well with his mind, his mouth, his pen, and his sword, a man who stirs up events wherever he goes.

Answer 9

Count of Monte Cristo

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Answer 10

That is so difficult! I love the Count of Monte Cristo. After that comes the entirety of the three Three Musketeers books. Always get complete and unabridged!!