Began to read Monte Cristo at six one morning and never stopped till eleven at night William Makepeace Thackeray
Alexandre Dumas is more than French he is European hes more than European he is universal Victor Hugo
No novelist since Dumas has been more irreverent of the conventions of well-made fiction or any more determined to tell stories without identifiable centers Terrence Rafferty
Set against the turbulent years of the Napoleonic era A...