The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

By the author of the internationally best-selling biography The Orientalist, The Black Count brings to life one of history's great forgotten heroes: a man almost unknown today yet with a personal story that is strikingly familiar. His name is Alex Dumas. Father of the novelist Alexandre Dumas, Alex has become, through his son's books, the model fo...show more