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[1830] CRIME WRITER

During France's July Revolution, Alexandre Dumas, author of The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers, was among the Paris mob that looted the now-gone Palais des Tuileries, then the official residence of King Charles X. While inside the royal chambers, the novelist found a copy of his play Christine, which he stole.

[1899] UP THE RIVER

Joseph Conrad might never have written Heart of Darkness--one of the greatest classics of English literature--had he not hit rock bottom first. As a young man, Conrad, who was Polish, got mixed up in a ...

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