The Works of Alexandre Dumas
Over his lifetime Dumas's name appeared on roughly 250 books. This site is steadily adding his most celebrated novels, free to read online — starting with the one that needs no introduction.
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The Three Musketeers
D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis — court intrigue, stolen diamonds, and a vow of loyalty that has echoed through nearly two centuries of readers. Sixty-seven chapters and an epilogue, complete and free.
The Count of Monte Cristo
Edmond Dantès, wrongly imprisoned, transforms himself into an instrument of patient and devastating revenge. One hundred and seventeen chapters, complete and free.
Twenty Years After
The musketeers reunite two decades on, divided by civil war and reunited by old loyalty. Ninety chapters, complete and free.
The Vicomte de Bragelonne
The final volume of the d'Artagnan Romances — home to the legend of the Man in the Iron Mask. Two hundred and fifty-eight chapters across four books, complete and free.
The Marie Antoinette Romances
Dumas's sweeping chronicle of the fall of the French monarchy, from the mysterious Cagliostro to the execution of Marie Antoinette.
Joseph Balsamo
A mysterious magician and master conspirator arrives in France as the young Marie Antoinette crosses the border to marry the future Louis XVI.
The Queen's Necklace
A diamond necklace, a scheming countess, and a scandal that helped doom a monarchy — based on the real Affair of the Diamond Necklace.
Taking the Bastille
A peasant named Ange Pitou is swept into the gathering storm of revolution, culminating in the storming of the Bastille.
The Countess de Charny
The royal family's failed flight, imprisonment, and the trial and execution of Louis XVI, as the Revolution reaches its darkest hour.
The Chevalier de Maison-Rouge
A secret Royalist plot to rescue Marie Antoinette from the Temple prison, and the young Republican officer caught between duty and love.
The Hero of the People
Picking up right after Taking the Bastille, in the tense months between the fall of the Bastille and the Revolution's darker turn — a fuller, less-condensed volume of the same saga. Twenty-nine chapters, complete and free.
The Valois Romances
A trilogy chronicling the turbulent Valois court, from the massacre that opens Queen Margot to the intrigues of Henri III's reign.
Queen Margot
A royal wedding meant to heal a kingdom collapses into the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre — the novel that made "Queen Margot" a legend. Sixty-six chapters, complete and free.
La Dame de Monsoreau
Also known as Chicot the Jester. A forbidden romance, a scheming jester, and a kingdom teetering under Henri III. Ninety-seven chapters, complete and free.
The Forty-Five Guardsmen
A king builds a private guard as civil war looms, and an old debt of vengeance finally comes due — the trilogy's dramatic close. Eighty-nine chapters, complete and free.
Other Works
The Black Tulip
A tulip-fancier is wrongly imprisoned, and finds an ally in his jailer's daughter as he risks everything to grow the impossible: a perfectly black tulip. Thirty-three chapters, complete and free.
The Corsican Brothers
Separated twins who share every joy and pain across any distance — a shorter, stranger tale of vendetta and the uncanny. Twenty chapters, complete and free.
The Wolf-Leader
A shoemaker strikes a Faustian bargain with a mysterious black wolf — one of the earliest werewolf novels, set in Dumas's home forest. An introduction and twenty-three chapters, complete and free.
The Conspirators
Also known as The Chevalier d'Harmental. A real 1718 plot against the Regent of France, a soldier of fortune, and a duel critics still remember. Forty-three chapters, complete and free.
The Regent's Daughter
The direct sequel to The Conspirators, set in the tense aftermath of the failed Cellamare plot. Thirty-eight chapters, complete and free.
The Companions of Jehu
Royalist highwaymen, an aide-de-camp to a rising general named Bonaparte, and a mystery worth the guillotine. Fifty-six chapters, complete and free.
Ascanio
Benvenuto Cellini at the court of Francis I, a forbidden romance, and a masterpiece cast in bronze, drawn from Cellini's own memoirs. Two books, forty-two chapters, complete and free.
The Two Dianas
Published under Dumas's name, but possibly written entirely by his collaborator Paul Meurice — see the note on its page. A romance of Henri II's court and two famous namesakes. Three volumes, one hundred and seven chapters, complete and free.
Captain Paul
A mysterious sea captain, a noble family's buried secret, and a story inspired by the real life of American naval hero John Paul Jones. Nineteen chapters, complete and free.
The Countess de Saint-Geran
A swapped newborn, a fortune at stake, and a conspiracy it took decades to unravel — a true-crime tale from Dumas's Celebrated Crimes collection, complete and free.
The Whites and the Blues
A young man's coming of age through the Reign of Terror and into Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign — one of Dumas's final novels. Four parts, one hundred twenty-one chapters, complete and free.
Urbain Grandier
A charismatic priest, a convent's claims of demonic possession, and a witch trial that ended at the stake — from Dumas's Celebrated Crimes collection, complete and free.
The Borgias
A papal dynasty built on poison, ambition, and blood — the true story of Rodrigo, Cesare, and Lucrezia Borgia, from Dumas's Celebrated Crimes collection, complete and free.
Mary Stuart
The turbulent life and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, told with unusual sympathy — from Dumas's Celebrated Crimes collection, complete and free.
New works are being added to this site regularly. Check back soon.