The Description of English Tenses in the Novel “The Three Musketeers” by Alexandre Dumas

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ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Alexandre Dumas was born on July, 1802 in Villers-Cotterets, some fifty

miles north-east of paris. He adopted the last name "Dumas" from his

grandmother, a former Haitian slave. In 1822, Dumas moved to Paris and

immersed himself in literature. He worked as a scribe for the ducd'Orléans (later

named King Louis Philippe) during the 1830 revolution. He began writing plays,

both comedies and dramas. Dumas was a prolific writer of essays, short stories

and novels, as well as plays and travelogues.

The best known of his worked and he wrote are the first volume (The

Chevalier of Maison-Rouge in 1845)Les The Three Musketeers (published 1844),

a romance about four swashbuckling heroes in the age of Cardinal Richelieu;

Vingantsapres (1845; “Twenty Years After”); Le Comte de Monte Cristo