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The Black Count

- Glory, revolution, betrayal and the real Count of Monte Cristo
Af: Tom Reiss Engelsk Paperback

The Black Count

- Glory, revolution, betrayal and the real Count of Monte Cristo
Af: Tom Reiss Engelsk Paperback
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2013

‘Completely absorbing’
Amanda Foreman

''Enthralling’

Guardian

The Three Musketeers! The Count of Monte Cristo! The stories of course
are fiction. But here a prize-winning author shows us that the inspiration for
the swashbuckling stories was, in fact, Dumas’s own father, Alex - the son
of a marquis and a black slave... He achieved a giddy ascent from private
in the Dragoons to the rank of general; an outsider who had grown up
among slaves, he was all for Liberty and Equality. Alex Dumas was the
stuff of legend’

Daily Mail

So how did such this extraordinary man get erased by history? Why are
there no statues of ‘Monsieur Humanity’ as his troops called him? The
Black Count
uncovers what happened and the role Napoleon played in
Dumas’s downfall. By walking the same ground as Dumas - from Haiti to
the Pyramids, Paris to the prison cell at Taranto – Reiss, like the novelist
before him, triumphantly resurrects this forgotten hero.

‘Entrances from first to last. Dumas the novelist would be proud’
Independent


‘Brilliant’ Glasgow Herald

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2013

‘Completely absorbing’
Amanda Foreman

''Enthralling’

Guardian

The Three Musketeers! The Count of Monte Cristo! The stories of course
are fiction. But here a prize-winning author shows us that the inspiration for
the swashbuckling stories was, in fact, Dumas’s own father, Alex - the son
of a marquis and a black slave... He achieved a giddy ascent from private
in the Dragoons to the rank of general; an outsider who had grown up
among slaves, he was all for Liberty and Equality. Alex Dumas was the
stuff of legend’

Daily Mail

So how did such this extraordinary man get erased by history? Why are
there no statues of ‘Monsieur Humanity’ as his troops called him? The
Black Count
uncovers what happened and the role Napoleon played in
Dumas’s downfall. By walking the same ground as Dumas - from Haiti to
the Pyramids, Paris to the prison cell at Taranto – Reiss, like the novelist
before him, triumphantly resurrects this forgotten hero.

‘Entrances from first to last. Dumas the novelist would be proud’
Independent


‘Brilliant’ Glasgow Herald

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 432
ISBN-13: 9780099575139
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0099575132
Kategori: Forside
Udg. Dato: 25 apr 2013
Længde: 31mm
Bredde: 199mm
Højde: 132mm
Forlag: Vintage Publishing
Oplagsdato: 25 apr 2013
Forfatter(e): Tom Reiss
Forfatter(e) Tom Reiss


Kategori Forside


ISBN-13 9780099575139


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 432


Udgave


Længde 31mm


Bredde 199mm


Højde 132mm


Udg. Dato 25 apr 2013


Oplagsdato 25 apr 2013


Forlag Vintage Publishing

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