Literary history well told in understated Dumas (Reuters)

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Reuters - The story sells itself: Alexandre Dumas, the famous French novelist, employed a collaborator-scribe named Auguste Maquet to help with the research, plotting and other heavy lifting for his much-loved adventure novels, including The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. One day, Maquet, tired of living in Dumas ' shadow, is prompted by a young woman ' s plea for help, and her misidentification of him, to pass himself off as the great writer.
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