The Novel of Alexander Dumas (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Novel of Alexander Dumas "I sit here reading Dumas´ last. Dumas is astonishing; he never will write himself out, there´s no dust on his shoes after all this running, his last books are better than his first." So wrote Elizabeth Barrett Browning from Florence to a friend in the winter of 1852-3. Dumas was then about fifty; he had written hundreds of volumes of romances and some scores of plays, and both romances and plays were streaming forth as fast as ever. "But for him the day of French novels seems over," wrote a reviewer at this time; "George Sand is silent; Balzac and Soulie are dead; Eugene Sue has fallen into hopeless inanity and wearisomeness; Paul de Kock has exhausted his gaiety; Madame Reybaud is silent; Dumas alone is as active as ever." Our author had lost his, excellent collaborator Maquet, but he was "as active as ever," and in the opinion of Mrs. Browning his last books were "better than his first." Dumas´ performances were indeed marvellous. At one time it was pretty generally believed that the name Dumas was not that of a man, but of a company of men; but as the books and plays multiplied, it was seen that, with a few exceptions, they hung together just as the Waverley novels hang together. "Now listen," wrote Mrs. Browning, "Alexandre Dumas does write his own books, that´s a fact. You know I always maintained it, through the odour of Dumas in the books, but people swore the contrary with great, foolish oaths worth nothing. Maquet prepares historical materials, gathers together notes, and so on, but Dumas writes every word of his books with his own hand, and with a facility amounting to inspiration, said my informant, a most credible witness and highly cultivated man." Mrs. Browning´s conviction was shared by most people when Maquet, after the dissolution of the partnership, wrote novels which proved failures, while Dumas produced romances of the quality of The Mouth of Hell (Le Trou de l´Enfer), its sequel Dieu Dispose, and Olympe de Cleves. These books were enormously enjoyed even by the most jaded readers, who were accustomed to take their fiction, like pills, in small doses from the feuilleton columns of the daily papers. Indeed, from first to last, perhaps they got more enjoyment out of Dumas than did any other class of readers. One´s favourite paper was "running" a romance by Sue, Soulie, or Reybaud, in which one was more or less interested. Suddenly one morning there was an announcement. The great, the illustrious Alexandre Dumas was returning from Switzerland, or from Russia, or from somewhere else, and immediately on his arrival was going to set to work upon a long romance, the first chapters of which would appear at the beginning of the new year, he subject of the romance, known to the editor of the journal, must be a profound secret, locked in his inviolable bosom, but the title would presently be made known. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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