1846; Alexandre Dumas, G.J. Knox; 1st English Edition; Parlor Novelist Series; Belfast, Simms and M'Intyre; Rebound Leather; 384 Pages; w4.2"xh6.6"; Very Rare!

• A lovely marble cover design with navy blue leather binding/corners, gold trim to spine with beige label, marble end pages/page edges and Great Classic from the Famed Author!

• Georges is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père set on Isle de France (Mauritius), from 1810 to 1824. This novel is of particular scholarly interest because Dumas reused many of its ideas and plot devices later in The Count of Monte Cristo and because race and racism are at the center of the novel, a topic Dumas rarely wrote about, despite his part-African ancestry. Georges was first published in 1843. It has been republished in English as George; or, the Planter of the Isle of France.

• The novel concerns the life of Georges, the son of a wealthy mulatto planter named Pierre Munier, on the French colony of Mauritius. While also being a mulatto, Georges is very light-skinned to the point where he can pass for being white. As a child, he witnesses the British invasion of Isle de France. Because Pierre is a mulatto, the other planters on the island (who are all white) refuse to let him fight alongside them. Instead, Pierre leads a group of Black militiamen and successfully rout a British column, saving the lives of many of the planters. Refusing to acknowledge that a person of color saved them, the other planters ignore Pierre's accomplishment.

• Alexandre Dumas (born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas père, was a French novelist and playwright.