Having Fun

David Coward

  • Viva Garibaldi! Une Odyssée en 1860 by Alexandre Dumas
    Fayard, 610 pp, €23.00, February 2002, ISBN 2 213 61230 7

Alexandre Dumas was a force of nature. The 650 or so books he published might not seem an extraordinary tally for such as Barbara Cartland, who could dictate six thousand words between lunch and tea, or Georges Simenon, who rarely spent more than a fortnight on a novel. But Dumas was not merely a novelist: he also wrote plays, travel books, memoirs, histories, accounts of great crimes plus a mass of ‘occasional’ writings which include his vast Grand Dictionnaire de cuisine.

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