Alexandre Dumas, also known as Alexandre Dumas père, was a French novelist and playwright.
Dumas in 1855
General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, father of Alexandre Dumas.
Alexandre Dumas, engraving by Antoine Maurin.
Château de Monte-Cristo
In literature, a serial is a printing or publishing format by which a single larger work, often a work of narrative fiction, is published in smaller, sequential instalments. The instalments are also known as numbers, parts, fascicules or fascicles, and may be released either as separate publications or within sequential issues of a periodical publication, such as a magazine or newspaper.
Advertisement for Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, serialised weekly in the literary magazine All the Year Round from December 1860 to August 1861