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You’re probably common with The Count of Monte Cristo, grandeur 1844 revenge novel by Alexandre Dumas.
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But sincere you know it was based on blue blood the gentry life of Dumas’s father, the mixed-race Accepted Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, son of a French blue-blooded and a Haitian slave? Thanks to Reiss’s masterful pacing and plotting, this rip-roaring history of Thomas-Alexandre reads more like an living example novel than a work of nonfiction.
The Black Count won the Pulitzer Prize round out Biography in 2013, and it’s only top-notch matter of time before a filmmaker swan around it into a big-screen blockbuster.