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| | Amazon.com: Alexander Dumas: Books: Michael Ross (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | Dumas attending his first play in Paris and meeting the critic Nodier, who was subsequently thrown out of the theatre for booing his own play. |
 | | It is clear that Dumas the father - with his prodigality, his egotism, his generosity, his impulsiveness, his energy, his disorder, passions, idealism, self-deceit, power, charm, wit and intelligence - did blight his son's life, did create the frightened, arrogant, moral poseur that son became. |
 | | Dumas seems to jump right off the page, 120 years after his death, in all these books, so great was his vitality then. |
| www.amazon.com /Alexander-Dumas-Michael-Ross/dp/0715377582 (1121 words) |
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