LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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W. Somerset Maugham
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Sir Arther Doyle
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Edward Fitzerald
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Alexander Dumas
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Detailed explanation-1: -Who is Alexandre Dumas? Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) was a famous French writer whose dramatic fiction works are still widely read today. Among the most famous of Alexandre Dumas’ novels are The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo.
Detailed explanation-2: -Dumas is a Southern French topographic surname, with fused preposition and definite article du, for someone who lived in an isolated dwelling in the country rather than in a village, from Occitan mas ‘farmstead’ (Late Latin mansum, mansus).
Detailed explanation-3: -Alexandre Dumas, père, (born July 24, 1802, Villers-Cotterêts, Aisne, France-died December 5, 1870, Puys, near Dieppe), one of the most prolific and most popular French authors of the 19th century.
Detailed explanation-4: -Thomas-Alexandre Dumas was a mulatto born in the French colony of Saint Domingue (Haiti). He joined the French Army as a private and rose to the rank of a General during the French Revolution. Dumas is probably best known for fathering the famous French writer Alexandre Dumas (père).