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Best known for The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, this master of high-stakes adventure helped define the swashbuckling historical novel. His stories move fast, brim with betrayal and daring, and still feel wonderfully alive.

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Born in Villers-Cotterêts, France, in 1802, he became one of the most widely read writers of the 19th century. He wrote plays as well as novels, but his lasting fame rests on his historical adventures, especially The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo.
His life was as vivid as his fiction. The son of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, he rose from modest circumstances, worked in Paris, and built a huge popular audience with energetic, serialized storytelling full of cliffhangers, duels, political intrigue, and larger-than-life heroes.
He died in 1870, but his books have never really left the stage. Generations of readers have kept returning to them for their momentum, emotion, and sheer sense of fun, and they remain among the most enduring classics of French literature.