The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (Pulitzer Prize for Biography)

by Tom Reiss

Book Overview

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY - ONE OF ESQUIRE'S BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL TIME

General Alex Dumas is a man almost unknown today, yet his story is strikingly familiar--because his son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas, used his larger-than-life feats as inspiration for such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.

But, hidden behind General Dumas's swashbuckling adventures...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307382478
• ISBN13: 9780307382474
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.1" x 7.9"