EAN: 9780099575139

THE BLACK COUNT - TOM REISS KARTONIERT (TB)

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
courseare fiction. But here a prize-winning author shows us that the inspiration forthe
swashbuckling stories was  in fact  Dumas's own father  Alex - the sonof a marquis and a black
slave... He achieved a giddy ascent from privatein the Dragoons to the rank of general  an
outsider who had grown upamong slaves  he was all for Liberty and Equality. Alex Dumas was
thestuff of legend' Daily MailSo how did such this extraordinary man get erased by history? Why
arethere no statues of 'Monsieur Humanity' as his troops called him? TheBlack Count uncovers
what happened and the role Napoleon played inDumas's downfall. By walking the same ground as
Dumas - from Haiti tothe Pyramids  Paris to the prison cell at Taranto - Reiss  like the
novelistbefore 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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