Georges (novel)

Georges (novel)

"Georges" is a short novel by Alexandre Dumas, père set on the island of Mauritius, from 1810 to 1824. This novel is of particular interest because Dumas reused many of the ideas and plot devices later in "The Count of Monte Cristo", and because race and racism are at the center of this novel, and this was a topic on which Dumas, despite his part-African ancestry, rarely wrote.cite web | title=The Alexandre Dumas père Web Site | work=Georges | url=http://cadytech.com/dumas/work.php?key=153 | accessdate=2006-04-06] "Georges" was first published in 1843.cite book | last=Reed | first=Frank Wild | authorlink= | coauthors= | editor= | others= | title=A Bibliography of Alexandre Dumas père | origdate= | origyear=1933 | origmonth= | url= | format= | accessdate= | accessyear= | accessmonth= | edition= | date= | year= | month= | publisher=J. A. Neuhuys | location=England | language=English | id= | pages=p. 152 | chapter= | chapterurl= ] It as been republished in English as "George; or, the Planter of the Isle of France."

A new translation by Tina Kover, edited by Werner Sollors and with an introduction by Jamaica Kincaid, was published by Random House, Inc./Modern Library in May 2007.

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*gutenberg|no=18271|name=Georges (in French)


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