Like a figure out of Jacobean theater or a Dumas novel, Amsterdam is consumed by the need for revenge.

Those words were familiar, because Claire had read them often in a Dumas novel; but there was something else that she recalled, though she had heard it for the first time tonight.

Before that, Zhigunov produced adaptations of two other Dumas novels: Queen Margot (1997) and The Countess de Monsoreau (1997).

It is tempting to believe that the society of 19th-century pleasure seekers described in the Dumas novel and Piave's libretto can be shifted to modern times.

Laura Miller of Salon stated, "a big, rousing, unabashedly tear-jerking Dumas novel, with fascinatingly intricate designs and fabulous tales on almost every page."

He waited til I had reread the Dumas novels and become so "hypnotised" by the scoundrel that I felt I had to play him.

Readers of the Dumas novel and viewers of the innumerable movie and television versions can recite the story in unison.

Just like a Dumas novel.

A day that he spent barefoot, in boxer shorts, doing officework at home while I went rooting through the city's proxy underworld, where life is cheaper than in a Dumas novel.

Imagine a Dumas novel of swashbuckling charlatans and heroic illuminates told by Voltaire.