Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) is an outstanding French playwright, poet, novelist, who left behind more than 500 volumes of works of various genres, a genius of the historical adventure novel. The personal life of the author of “The Three Musketeers” and “The Count of Monte Cristo” was like this as stormy, varied, restless and fascinating, like his heroes. Countless love affairs, the triumphant success of novels and plays, fabulous incomes and no less fantastic spending, luxurious receptions and the construction of a castle, which had to be sold for lack of money for its maintenance, as well as friendship with the main European freedom fighters, in particular with Garibaldi, endless travels not only in Italy, Spain and Germany, but also in such dangerous lands at that time as Russia, the Caucasus, Algeria and Tunisia...Henri Troyat, with passion, brilliance and deep knowledge of the subject, resurrects one of the most prominent figures in the entire history of the world literature.