The Three Musketeers | Critical Overview
Dumas has been criticized largely because of his use of collaborators to produce his fiction and because his books have more action than emotional depth. Authors of his day were jealous of his phenomenal success; as Andre Maurois wrote in The Titans: A Three-Generation Biography of the Dumas, "It was a scandal that a single writer should produce all the serials in all the papers; offensive that he should employ a team of anonymous collaborators." However, it must be remembered that at the time, it was considered perfectly...
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