Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas (French: Alexandre Dumas, pronounced: [alɛksɑədʁ dyma]; July 24, 1802 - December 5, 1870), formerly known as Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, [dyma davi də la pajtʁi], a 19th-century French romantic literary giant and the author of the world literary masterpiece "The Count of Monte Cristo". Alexandre Dumas is self-taught and is mainly famous for his novels and plays. In addition to "The Grudge of Monte Cristo", his most famous works also include "The Three Musketeers", "Twenty Years Later" and "The Vicomte de Bragelona", which is the "Dartan Romance Trilogy". He wrote many works in his life, including more than 150 novels and more than 90 screenplays. In fact, most of them were written by other writers in order to pay off debts and named "Author Dumas" for marketing purposes. Therefore, he was attacked as "the director of a novel manufacturing factory." The translation of "Zhong Ma" was made by Lin Shu, a translator in the late Qing Dynasty, based on the phonetic translation of Fuzhou dialect. His son Dumas is also a famous French writer. In order to distinguish the two, he called his son Dumas the younger and Dumas (French: Dumas, père).