


He has published on French authors from the Renaissance to the twentieth century and is coeditor of the journal Contemporary French & Francophone Studies/SITES. An epic literary adventure considered a classic around the world. Roger Celestin is a professor of French and comparative literature at the University of Connecticut. Dumas made and lost several fortunes, and died penniless on December 5, 1870. Dantes, who has heard about this treasure, in jest, from the jailers and guards of the Chateau D’If, worries that Faria has truly lost his mind. Falsely accused of treason, Edmond Dants is imprisoned in the bleak Chateau. Dantes returns to the Abbe ’s cell the next day, and Faria begins to tell him of a treasure, the location of which only the Abbe knows, and which he wishes to give Dantes. His most popular works are The Three Musketeers (1844), The Count of Monte Cristo (1844-45), and The Man in the Iron Mask (1848-50). 0486-26686-9 THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO: Abridged Edition, Alexandre Dumas. Dumas is most famous for his brilliant historical novels, which he wrote with collaborators, mainly Auguste Maquet, and which were serialized in the popular press of the day. A prolific author, Dumas was also an adventurer and took part in the Revolution of 1830. Dumas began writing at an early age and saw his first success in a play he wrote entitled Henri III et sa Cour (1829). Alexandre Dumas was born July 24, 1802, at Villiers-Cotterets, France, the son of Napoleon's famous mulatto general, Thomas-Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie.
