There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Novelist and dramatist                          

Selected Works:


Charles VII at the Homes of His Great Vassals - Charles VII chez ses grands vassaux, 1831 - drama, adapted for the opera The Saracen by Russian composer César Cui
The Fencing Master - Le Maître d'armes - 1840
Georges - 1843: The protagonist of this novel is a man of mixed race, a rare allusion to Dumas' own African ancestry.
The Nutcracker - Histoire d'un casse-noisette, 1844: a revision of Hoffmann's story, later adapted by Tchaikovsky as a ballet

The D'Artagnan Romances:

The Three Musketeers - Les Trois Mousquetaires, 1844
Twenty Years After - Vingt ans après, 1845
The Vicomte de Bragelonne, sometimes called "Ten Years Later", - Le Vicomte de Bragelonne, ou Dix ans plus tard, 1847: When published in English, it was usually split into three parts: 
The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Louise de la Valliere, and 
The Man in the Iron Mask, of which the last part is the best known. - A third sequel, The Son of Porthos, 1883 - a.k.a. The Death of Aramis was published under the name of Alexandre Dumas; however, the real author was Paul Mahalin.

The Count of Monte Cristo - Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, 1845–1846
The Regent's Daughter - Une Fille du régent, 1845
The Two Dianas - Les Deux Diane, 1846

The Valois romances:

La Reine Margot - 1845
La Dame de Monsoreau - 1846 - a.k.a. Chicot the Jester
The Forty-Five Guardsmen - 1847

The Marie Antoinette romances:

Joseph Balsamo - Mémoires d'un médecin: Joseph Balsamo, 1846–1848 - a.k.a. Memoirs of a Physician, Cagliostro, Madame Dubarry, The Countess Dubarry, or The Elixir of Life
The Queen's Necklace - Le Collier de la Reine, 1849–1850
Ange Pitou - 1853 - a.k.a. Storming the Bastille or Six Years Later
The Countess de Charny - La Comtesse de Charny, 1853–1855 - a.k.a. Andrée de Taverney, or The Mesmerist's Victim
Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge - 1845 - a.k.a. The Knight of the Red House, or The Knight of Maison-Rouge

The Black Tulip - La Tulipe noire, 1850
The Wolf-Leader - Le Meneur de loups, 1857
The Gold Thieves - after 1857: a play that was lost but rediscovered by the Canadian Reginald Hamel, researcher in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in 2004
The Companions of Jehu - Les Compagnons de Jehu, 1857
The Whites and the Blues - Les Blancs et les Bleus, 1867
The Last Cavalier - Le Chevalier de Sainte-Hermine, 1869: This nearly completed novel was his last major work and was lost until its rediscovery by Claude Schopp in 1988 and subsequent release in 2005.                          

Mother Marie-Louise Élisabeth Labouret
Father Thomas-Alexandre Dumas                          

Père - French for "father", akin to 'Senior' in English.

Dumas was a gourmet, an expert cook and a travel writer.