New York: Simon & Schuster, 1956. First edition - A historical novel based on the lives of the two Alexandre Dumas - pere and fils. "The two stories are told in counterpoint:- Alexandre Dumas always with the magnificent gesture, his son, underplaying his part, embittered at times by the price he had paid for his father's infamy, but exhilirated whenever that father chose to notice him. Endore has thrown his material before us in reckless disregard of order, pattern, relative values; he records the legends- and disputes them, the while he accepts and rejects what contributes to his portrait. It makes for often confused reporting, but there is something here of the immense vitality of Dumas, his magnetism, his grossness." (Kirkus) Ends with a "final word" by Endore - "What shall we call this book anyhow? Is there any truth to it?" 504 pp.