The romances of Alexandre Dumas Vol. 13 (Record no. 6666)
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
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| Classification number | 843 Dum |
| Item number | 14 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) | |
| Classification number | 843 Dum |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Dumas, Alexandre |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The romances of Alexandre Dumas Vol. 13 |
| Remainder of title | Ten Years Late |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Alexander Dumas |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | P.F. Collier and Son |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 1910 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | New York |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 497 p. |
| 440 ## - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE | |
| Title | The romances of Alexandre Dumas |
| Number of part/section of a work | 25 Volumes |
| Name of part/section of a work | Volume XIII |
| 501 ## - WITH NOTE | |
| With note | illustrated with photogravures and engravings from paintings by Maurice Leloir [and others] |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | v. 1-2. The Count of Monte Cristo.-- v. 3-4. The two Dianas.-- v. 5-6. The page of the Duke of Savoy.-- v. 7. Margaret de Valois.-- v. 8. Chicot the jester.-- v. 9. The forty-five guardsmen.-- v. 10. The three guardsmen.-- v. 11. Twenty years after.-- v. 12. The vicomte de Bragelonne.-- v. 13. Ten years later.-- v. 14. Louise de la Valliere.-- v. 15. The man in the iron mask.-- v. 16. The Chevalier d'Harmental.-- v. 17. The regent's daughter.-- v. 18. Joseph Balsamo.-- v. 19. The memoirs of a physician.-- v. 20. The queen's necklace.-- v. 21. Taking the Bastile.-- v. 22. The Countess de Charny.-- v. 23. The Chevalier de Maison Rouge.-- v. 24-25. The whites and the blues. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Alexandre Dumas; 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas, père, was a French writer. His works have been translated into nearly 100 languages, and he is one of the most widely read French authors. Many of his historical novels of high adventure were originally published as serials, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later. His novels have been adapted since the early twentieth century for nearly 200 films. Dumas' last novel, The Knight of Sainte-Hermine, unfinished at his death, was completed by a scholar and published in 2005, becoming a bestseller. It was published in English in 2008 as The Last Cavalier. Prolific in several genres, Dumas began his career by writing plays, which were successfully produced from the first. He also wrote numerous magazine articles and travel books; his published works totaled 100,000 pages. In the 1840s, Dumas founded the Théâtre Historique in Paris. Dumas' father, General Thomas-Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie, was born in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) to a French nobleman and an enslaved African woman. At age 14 Thomas-Alexandre was taken by his father to France, where he was educated in a military academy and entered the military for what became an illustrious career. His father's aristocratic rank helped young Alexandre acquire work with Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orléans. He later began working as a writer, finding early success. Decades later, in the election of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte in 1851, Dumas fell from favor and left France for Belgium, where he stayed for several years. Upon leaving Belgium, Dumas moved to Russia for a few years before going to Italy. In 1861 he founded and published the newspaper L' Indipendente, which supported the Italian unification effort. In 1864 he returned to Paris. Though married, in the tradition of Frenchmen of higher social class, Dumas had numerous affairs (allegedly as many as forty). In his lifetime, he was known to have at least four illegitimate or "natural" children; although twentieth-century scholars found that Dumas fathered another three "natural" children. He acknowledged, and assisted his son, Alexandre Dumas to become a successful novelist, and playwright. They are known as Alexandre Dumas père (father) and Alexandre Dumas fils (son). Among his affairs, in 1866 Dumas had one with Adah Isaacs Menken, an American actress then less than half his age and at the height of her career. The English playwright Watts Phillips, who knew Dumas in his later life, described him as "the most generous, large-hearted being in the world. He also was the most delightfully amusing and egotistical creature on the face of the earth. His tongue was like a windmill – once set in motion, you never knew when he would stop, especially if the theme was himself." |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) | |
| Local note | 38537 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | French literature. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | |
| Koha item type | 800 - 899 |
| Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Permanent Location | Current Location | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen |
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| Arthur Johnson Memorial Library | Arthur Johnson Memorial Library | 150.00 | 843 Dum | 38537 | 2007-07-31 |