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Alexandre Dumas fils (French: [alɛksɑ̃dʁ dymɑ fis]; 27 July 1824 – 27 November 1895) was a French author and playwright, best known for the romantic novel La Dame aux Camélias (The Lady of the Camellias), published in 1848, which was adapted into Giuseppe Verdi's 1853 opera La traviata (The Fallen Woman), as well as numerous stage and film productions, usually titled Camille in English ...
His output was copious, but it far from equalled the avalanche of works produced by his father. But Dumas fils, unlike his father, worked without collaborators. Dumas's most famous work is La Dame aux camelias, known in English as Camille, which appeared both as a novel (1848; Eng. trans., 1931) and as a play (1852; Eng. trans., 1956). The ...
Alexandre Dumas, fils (born July 27, 1824, Paris, Fr.—died Nov. 27, 1895, Marly-le-Roi) was a French playwright and novelist, one of the founders of the “problem play”—that is, of the middle-class realistic drama treating some contemporary ill and offering suggestions for its remedy. He was the son ( fils) of the dramatist and novelist ...
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Some of his friends - including his son Alexandre Dumas fils - did that too. The most aggressive of these enemies was journalist Eugène de Mirecourt (Charles Jacquot) who published in 1845 a 80-page pamphlet against Dumas titled Fabrique de romans: maison Alexandre Dumas et compagnie (Factory of novels: House Alexandre Dumas & Co.). Mirecourt ...
Dumas certainly profited from this arrangement but so too did the newspaper owners, who saw their readership increase whenever they printed a Dumas text. While Dumas and his collaborators continued throughout this time to write what might be called “stand alone” novels, they also developed several series of novels that are now among Dumas's ...
"Dumas, if I understand rightly, used to treat with the publishers and managers, and settle with his collaborator. Dumas fell into arrears with him, arrears which, if his heart alone had been to be consulted, would have been paid to the centime; but unfortunately he had other creditors, who interposed with legal powers.
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Dumas wrote in a wide variety of genres and published a total of 100,000 pages in his lifetime. To keep up this prolific output, Dumas depended on numerous assistants and collaborators, of whom Auguste Maquet was the best known. It was not until the late-twentieth century that his role was fully understood.
