Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas (born Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas père, was a French novelist and playwright.

Books in order of publication:

Christian history

Acté of Corinth; or The convert of St. Paul. a tale of Greece and Rome. (1839), a novel about Rome, Nero, and early Christianity.

Isaac Laquedem (1852–53, incomplete)

Adventure

The Countess of Salisbury (La Comtesse de Salisbury; Édouard III, 1836), his first serial novel published in volume in 1839.

Captain Paul (Le Capitaine Paul, 1838)

Othon the Archer (Othon l’archer 1840)

Captain Pamphile (Le Capitaine Pamphile, 1839)

The Fencing Master (Le Maître d’armes, 1840)

Castle Eppstein; The Spectre Mother (Chateau d’Eppstein; Albine, 1843)

Amaury (1843)

The Corsican Brothers (Les Frères Corses, 1844)

The Black Tulip (La Tulipe noire, 1850)

Olympe de Cleves (1851–52)

Catherine Blum (1853–54)

The Mohicans of Paris (Les Mohicans de Paris [fr], 1854)

Salvator (Salvator. Suite et fin des Mohicans de Paris, 1855–1859)

The Last Vendee, or the She-Wolves of Machecoul (Les louves de Machecoul, 1859), a romance (not about werewolves).

La Sanfelice (1864), set in Naples in 1800.

Pietro Monaco, sua moglie Maria Oliverio ed i loro complici, (1864), an appendix to Ciccilla by Peppino Curcio.

The Prussian Terror (La Terreur Prussienne, 1867), set during the Seven Weeks’ War.

Fantasy

The Nutcracker (Histoire d’un casse-noisette, 1844

The Pale Lady (La Dame Pȃle, 1849) A vampire tale about a Polish woman who is adored by two very different brothers.

The Wolf Leader (Le Meneur de loups, 1857). One of the first werewolf novels ever written.

In addition, Dumas wrote many series of novels:

Monte Cristo

Georges (1843): The protagonist of this novel is a man of mixed race, a rare allusion to Dumas’s own African ancestry.

The Count of Monte Cristo (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, 1844–46)

Louis XV

The Conspirators (Le chevalier d’Harmental, 1843)

The Regent’s Daughter (Une Fille du régent, 1845). Sequel to The Conspirators.

The D’Artagnan Romances

The d’Artagnan Romances:

The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires, 1844)

Twenty Years After (Vingt ans après, 1845)

The Vicomte de Bragelonne, sometimes called Ten Years Later (Le Vicomte de Bragelonne, ou Dix ans plus tard, 1847). When published in English, it was usually split into three parts: The Vicomte de Bragelonne (sometimes called Between Two Kings), Louise de la Valliere, and The Man in the Iron Mask, of which the last part is the best known.

Related books

Louis XIV and His Century (Louis XIV et son siècle, 1844)

The Women’s War (La Guerre des Femmes, 1845): follows Baron des Canolles, a naïve Gascon soldier who falls in love with two women.

The Dove – the court of Louis XIII, revolving around courtly intrigue, romantic loyalty, and a symbolic dove given as a token of love

The Count of Moret; The Red Sphinx; or Richelieu and His Rivals (Le Comte de Moret; Le Sphinx Rouge, 1865–66) – a prequel to The Dove