Comments on: THE LAST CAVALIER by Alexandre Dumas http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2007/09/09/747/ One more bite of the apple. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:09:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: David Thayer http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2007/09/09/747/#comment-78919 David Thayer Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:51:54 +0000 http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2007/09/09/747/#comment-78919 Sarah, there is a forward by Schopp that explains how Dumas wrote the book, writing chapters for newspaper publication while negotiating book rights. Schopp wrote the final two chapters. Sarah, there is a forward by Schopp that explains how Dumas wrote the book, writing chapters for newspaper publication while negotiating book rights. Schopp wrote the final two chapters.

]]> By: Sarah Moffett http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2007/09/09/747/#comment-78915 Sarah Moffett Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:35:34 +0000 http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2007/09/09/747/#comment-78915 Apparently the same place the rest of us have been for the past 137 years. Thinking the man was dead and so were any further novels. According to an article by Washington Post’s Michael Dirda (Book World, September 16th edition), Claude Schopp, Dumas's personal scholar, discovered that our ailing literary hero churned out a newspaper serial without an ending. Why was this newspaper serial without an ending? Because Dumas had the heartless gumption to leave his readers hanging by up and dying. That bum. Over a century later, the publishing world is ready to correct its faults. Anything for a buck. Apparently the same place the rest of us have been for the past 137 years. Thinking the man was dead and so were any further novels. According to an article by Washington Post’s Michael Dirda (Book World, September 16th edition), Claude Schopp, Dumas’s personal scholar, discovered that our ailing literary hero churned out a newspaper serial without an ending. Why was this newspaper serial without an ending? Because Dumas had the heartless gumption to leave his readers hanging by up and dying. That bum. Over a century later, the publishing world is ready to correct its faults. Anything for a buck.

]]> By: david i http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2007/09/09/747/#comment-76781 david i Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:24:32 +0000 http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2007/09/09/747/#comment-76781 You're kidding. An unpublished Dumas manuscript? Where have I been? You’re kidding. An unpublished Dumas manuscript?

Where have I been?

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