Editing Alexandre Dumas (section)

==Works==

===Fiction===
==== 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 ====
Alexandre Dumas wrote numerous stories and historical chronicles of adventure. They included the following:
* ''[[The Countess of Salisbury (novel)|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 (Dumas novel)|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'' (''{{ill|Les Mohicans de Paris|fr|Les Mohicans de Paris (roman)}}'', 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): a revision of [[Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann|Hoffmann]]'s story ''[[The Nutcracker and the Mouse King]]'', later set by composer [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]] to music for a ballet also called ''[[The Nutcracker]]''.
* ''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 (novel)|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 (novel)|The Conspirators]]'' (''Le chevalier d'Harmental'', 1843) adapted by [[Paul Ferrier]] for an 1896 [[opéra comique]] by [[André Messager|Messager]].
# ''[[The Regent's Daughter]]'' (''Une Fille du régent'', 1845). Sequel to ''The Conspirators''.

====''The D'Artagnan Romances''====
''[[The d'Artagnan Romances]]'':

# ''[[The Three Musketeers]]'' ({{lang|fr|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 Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later#Part Three: The Man in the Iron Mask (Chapters 181–269)|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 (novel)|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 Count of Moret; The Red Sphinx; or, Richelieu and His Rivals'' (''Le Comte de Moret; Le Sphinx Rouge'', 1865–66) - [[File:Houghton MS Fr 133.1 - Le Comte de Moret, 1.jpg|thumb|upright|First page of the original manuscript to ''Le Comte de Moret'']]
# The Dove - the sequel to Richelieu and His Rivals

==== The Valois romances ====
The [[House of Valois|Valois]] were the royal house of France from 1328 to 1589, and many Dumas romances cover their reign. Traditionally, the so-called "Valois Romances" are the three that portray the Reign of [[Margaret of Valois|Queen Marguerite]], the last of the Valois. Dumas, however, later wrote four more novels that cover this family and portray similar characters, starting with François or [[Francis I of France|Francis I]], his son [[Henry II of France|Henry II]], and Marguerite and [[Francis II of France|François II]], children of Henry II and [[Catherine de' Medici]].
# ''[[La Reine Margot (novel)|La Reine Margot]]'', also published as ''Marguerite de Valois'' (1845)
# ''[[La Dame de Monsoreau]]'' (1846) (later adapted as a short story titled "Chicot the Jester")
# ''[[The Forty-Five Guardsmen]]'' (1847) (''Les Quarante-cinq'')
# ''[[Ascanio (novel)|Ascanio]]'' (1843). Written in collaboration with [[Paul Meurice]], it is a romance of [[Francis I of France|Francis I]] (1515–1547), but the main character is Italian artist [[Benvenuto Cellini]]. The opera ''[[Ascanio]]'' was based on this novel.
# ''[[The Two Dianas]]'' (''Les Deux Diane'', 1846), is a novel about [[Gabriel, comte de Montgomery]], who mortally wounded King Henry II and was lover to his daughter [[Diana de Castro]]. Although published under Dumas's name, it was wholly or mostly written by Paul Meurice.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hemmings|first1=F. W. J.|title=Alexandre Dumas: The King of Romance|date=2011|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-1448204830|pages=130|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O0j2MOu_ERwC&pg=PT130|language=en}}</ref>
# ''[[The Page of the Duke of Savoy]]'', (1855) is a sequel to ''The Two Dianas'' (1846), and it covers the struggle for supremacy between the Guises and Catherine de Médicis, the Florentine mother of the last three Valois kings of France (and wife of Henry II). The main character in this novel is Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy.
# ''The Horoscope: a romance of the reign of François II'' (1858), covers François II, who reigned for one year (1559–60) and died at the age of 16.

==== The Marie Antoinette romances ====
The [[Marie Antoinette]] romances comprise eight novels. The unabridged versions (normally 100 chapters or more) comprise only five books (numbers 1, 3, 4, 7 and 8); the short versions (50 chapters or less) number eight in total:
# ''Joseph Balsamo'' (''Mémoires d'un médecin: Joseph Balsamo'', 1846–48) (a.k.a. ''Memoirs of a Physician'', ''[[Alessandro Cagliostro|Cagliostro]]'', ''[[Madame Dubarry]]'', ''The Countess Dubarry'', or ''The Elixir of Life''). ''Joseph Balsamo'' is about 1000 pages long, and is usually published in two volumes in English translations: Vol 1. ''Joseph Balsamo'' and Vol 2. ''Memoirs of a Physician''.  The long unabridged version includes the contents of book two, Andrée de Taverney; the short abridged versions usually are divided in ''Balsamo'' and ''Andrée de Taverney'' as completely different books.
# ''Andrée de Taverney'', or ''The Mesmerist's Victim''
# ''[[The Queen's Necklace]]'' (''Le Collier de la Reine'', (1849−1850)
# ''Ange Pitou'' (1853) (a.k.a. ''Storming the Bastille'' or ''Six Years Later''). From this book, there are long unabridged versions which include the contents of book five, but there are many short versions that treat "The Hero of the People" as a separated volume.
# ''The Hero of the People''
# ''The Royal Life Guard or The Flight of the Royal Family.''
# ''The Countess de Charny'' (''La Comtesse de Charny'', 1853–1855). As with other books, there are long unabridged versions which include the contents of book six; but many short versions that leave contents in ''The Royal Life Guard'' as a separate volume.
# ''[[Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge]]'' (1845) (a.k.a. ''The Knight of the Red House'', or ''The Knight of Maison-Rouge'')

==== The Sainte-Hermine trilogy ====

:# ''[[The Companions of Jehu]]'' (''Les Compagnons de Jehu'', 1857)
:#''[[The Whites and the Blues]]'' (''Les Blancs et les Bleus'', 1867)
:# ''[[The Knight of Sainte-Hermine]]'' (''Le Chevalier de Sainte-Hermine'', 1869). Dumas's last novel, unfinished at his death, was completed by scholar Claude Schopp and published in 2005.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/12/alexandredumaspere|title=Alexandre Dumas, père|date=22 July 2008|work=The Guardian|access-date=22 August 2017|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> It was published in English in 2008 as ''The Last Cavalier''.

==== Robin Hood ====
These were a translation of [[Pierce Egan the Younger]]'s ''Robin Hood and Little John'', originally published in England in 1838.
# ''The Prince of Thieves'' (''Le Prince des voleurs'', 1872, posthumously). About [[Robin Hood]] (and the inspiration for the 1948 film ''[[The Prince of Thieves]]'').
# ''Robin Hood the Outlaw'' (''Robin Hood le proscrit'', 1873, posthumously). Sequel to ''Le Prince des voleurs''

===Drama===
Although best known now as a novelist, Dumas first earned fame as a dramatist. His ''Henri III et sa cour'' (1829) was the first of the great [[Romanticism|Romantic]] historical dramas produced on the Paris stage, preceding Victor Hugo's more famous ''[[Hernani (drama)|Hernani]]'' (1830). Produced at the [[Comédie-Française]] and starring the famous [[Mademoiselle Mars]], Dumas's play was an enormous success and launched him on his career. It had 50 performances over the next year, extraordinary at the time. Dumas's works included:
* ''The Hunter and the Lover'' (1825)
* ''The Wedding and the Funeral'' (1826)
* ''[[Henry III and His Court]]'' (1829)
* ''Christine – Stockholm, Fontainebleau, and Rome'' (1830)
* ''Napoleon Bonaparte or Thirty Years of the History of France'' (1831)
* ''Antony'' (1831){{snd}}a drama with a contemporary [[Byronic]] hero{{snd}}is considered the first non-historical Romantic drama. It starred Mars' great rival [[Marie Dorval]].
* ''Charles VII at the Homes of His Great Vassals'' (''Charles VII chez ses grands vassaux'', 1831). This drama was adapted by the Russian composer [[César Cui]] for his opera ''[[The Saracen (opera)|The Saracen]]''.
* ''Teresa'' (1831)
* ''La Tour de Nesle'' (1832), a historical melodrama
* ''The Memories of Anthony'' (1835)
* ''The Chronicles of France: Isabel of Bavaria'' (1835)
* ''[[Kean (play)|Kean]]'' (1836), based on the life of the notable late English actor [[Edmund Kean]]. [[Frédérick Lemaître]] played him in the production.
* ''Caligula'' (1837)
* ''Miss Belle-Isle'' (1837)
* ''The Young Ladies of Saint-Cyr'' (1843)
* ''The Youth of Louis XIV'' (1854)
* ''The Son of the Night – The Pirate'' (1856) (with Gérard de Nerval, Bernard Lopez, and Victor Sejour)
* ''[[The Gold Thieves]]'' (after 1857): an unpublished five-act play. It was discovered in 2002 by the Canadian scholar Reginald Hamel, who was researching in the {{Lang|fr|Bibliothèque Nationale de France|italic=no}}. The play was published in France in 2004 by Honoré-Champion. Hamel said that Dumas was inspired by a novel written in 1857 by his mistress Célèste de Mogador.<ref name="Hamel"/>

Dumas wrote many plays and adapted several of his novels as dramas. In the 1840s, he founded the [[Théâtre Historique]], located on the [[Boulevard du Temple]] in Paris. The building was used after 1852 by the [[Opéra National]] (established by [[Adolphe Adam]] in 1847). It was renamed the [[Théâtre Lyrique]] in 1851.

===Non-fiction===
Dumas was a prolific writer of nonfiction. He wrote journal articles on politics and culture and books on French history.

His lengthy ''Grand Dictionnaire de cuisine'' (''Great Dictionary of Cuisine'') was published posthumously in 1873, and several editions of it are still in print today. A combination of encyclopaedia and cookbook, it reflects Dumas's interests as both a gourmet and an expert cook. An abridged version (the ''Petit Dictionnaire de cuisine'', or ''Small Dictionary of Cuisine'') was published in 1883.

He was also known for his travel writing. These books included:
* ''Impressions de voyage: En Suisse'' (''Travel Impressions: In Switzerland'', 1834)
* ''Une Année à Florence'' (''A Year in Florence'', 1841)
* ''De Paris à Cadix'' (''From Paris to Cadiz'', 1846)
* ''Le Véloce: Tangier a Tunis'' (''Tangier to Tunis'', 1846–47), 1848–1851
* ''Montevideo, ou une nouvelle Troie'', 1850 (''[[The New Troy]]''), inspired by the [[Great Siege of Montevideo]]
* ''Le Journal de Madame Giovanni'' (''The Journal of Madame Giovanni'', 1856)
* ''Travel Impressions in the Kingdom of Napoli/Naples Trilogy'':
** ''Impressions of Travel in Sicily'' (''Le Speronare (Sicily – 1835)'', 1842
** ''Captain Arena'' (''Le Capitaine Arena (Italy – Aeolian Islands and Calabria – 1835)'', 1842
** ''[[Le Corricolo|Impressions of Travel in Naples]]'' (''Le Corricolo (Rome – Naples – 1833)'', 1843
* ''Travel Impressions in Russia – Le Caucase Original edition: Paris 1859''
* ''Adventures in Czarist Russia, or From Paris to Astrakhan'' (''Impressions de voyage: En Russie; De Paris à Astrakan: Nouvelles impressions de voyage (1858)'', 1859–1862
* ''Voyage to the Caucasus'' (''Le Caucase: Impressions de voyage; suite de En Russie (1859)'', 1858–1859
* ''The Bourbons of Naples'' ({{langx|it|I Borboni di Napoli}}, 1862) (7 volumes published by Italian newspaper ''L'Indipendente'', whose director was Dumas himself).<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=W9UoAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=it&pg=GBS.PR4|title=I Borboni di Napoli: Questa istoria, pubblicata pe'soli lettori dell'Indipendente, è stata scritta su documenti nuovi, inediti, e sconosciut, scoperiti dall'autore negli archivi segreti della polizia, e degli affari esteri di Napoli|last=Dumas|first=Alexandre|date=1862|language=it}}</ref><ref name="MuseoWeb CMS">{{cite web |author=MuseoWeb CMS |title=Banche dati, Open Archives, Libri elettronici |trans-title=Databases, Open Archives, Electronic Books |url=http://www.bnnonline.it/index.php?it/232/banche-dati-open-archives-libri-elettronici/720=&paginate_pagenum=3&printPdf=1&stripImages=1&paginate_pageNum=3&desktop=true&tabs_state=tablatest |website=Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli |language=it |access-date=28 August 2020}}</ref>