The Black Count - Tom Reiss

Art Nr.: 0099575132

ISBN 13: 9780099575139

SubTitle: Glory, revolution, betrayal and the real Count of Monte Cristo

ReleaseYear: 2013

Published by: Puffin Classics

Cover: Taschenbuch

Cover Format: 199x128x35 mm

Pages: 432

Weight: 402 g

Language: Englisch

Author: Tom Reiss

 
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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

Nominiert: National Book Critics Circle Biography Award, 2013.Ausgezeichnet: Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction, 2013