HISTORICAL FICTION A NEWLY DISCOVERED NOVEL BY A GREAT YARN- SPINNER SHOULD BE A CAUSE FOR REJOICING ... JONATHAN BATE IS NOT SO SURE The Sunday Telegraph London | May 11, 2008| | Copyright 2008 The Sunday Telegraph London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

The Last Cavalier

BY ALEXANDRE DUMAS

FOURTH ESTATE, pounds 20, 752 pp

T pounds 17 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115

Here is a good question for a pub quiz: which two classic authors have had the most movies made from their works? Shakespeare wins, but in second place, with more than 200 adaptations to his name, is the less predictable figure of Alexandre Dumas. 'After God,' he once said, 'Shakespeare has created most' - and you can't help thinking that he wanted people to say: 'After Shakespeare, Dumas has created most.'

Born in 1802, he had an exotic pedigree: his grandfather was a colonial ...

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

	How I took the Beagle to Darwins Galapagos; 1. NO FEAR: Galapagos sea lions 2. UNFORGETTABLE: Tom checks out the local flora before returning to the Beagle. Inset: A blue-footed booby. Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England) ; ...water between ourselves and the airport crush. Its a long journey to the islands so first we decompressed for three days atthe Finch Bay Hotel on Santa Cruz, an intimate and elegant establishment, smallenough to be a family hotel but sufficiently thought...
	HISTORY CLIVE ASLET ON THE PLACE WHERE THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION EVOLVED Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London ; ...book, he himself did little with the finches that are often used to demonstrate the...pregnant with their third child when the Darwins decided to move out of London. Before...Emma playing loudly on the piano, the Darwins' son Francis blowing fortissimo on the...
	Evolving glory of the Galapagos Newspaper article from: The Independent - London ; ...the Blest. Its controversial whether Darwins visit to that remarkable archipelago really...divergence of one ancestral species into two: Darwins origin of species. For speciation to...be a single continent. To a Galapagos finch, the 600-mile distance to the mainland...
	National Geographic Magazine February 2009 News Wire article from: Targeted News Service ; ...Never mind the notion of Darwin's finches. His first real clue about evolution...fossils of armadillos and sloths. MODERN DARWINS, by Matt Ridley, photographed by Lynn...narrative and its mechanism -- modern Darwins don't have to guess. They consult genetic...
	Twenty Years in the Making: How the Theory of Evolution Finally Went Public Newspaper article from: Solares Hill ; ...the young naturalist chasing beetles in Cambridge or collecting finches in the Galapagos. The book starts after Darwin's return from...odyssey into barnacles. Not to mention raising a large family; the Darwins had 10 children, seven

For more facts and information, see all results

Find more facts and information related to the article "HISTORICAL FICTION A NEWLY DISCOVERED NOVEL BY A ..."