β Scribed by Alexandre Dumas
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Paperback, 761 pages
Published 1844
Barnes & Noble Classics Series (2004)
Introduction by: Barbara T. Cooper
Original Title: Les Trois Mousquetaires
The present translation, like many editions which first introduced English readers to Dumasβs work, remains anonymous.
Mixing a bit of seventeenth-century French history with a great deal of invention, Alexandre Dumas tells the tale of young DβArtagnan and his musketeer comrades, Porthos, Athos and Aramis. Together they fight to foil the schemes of the brilliant, dangerous Cardinal Richelieu, who pretends to support the king while plotting to advance his own power. Bursting with swirling swordplay, swooning romance, and unforgettable figures such as the seductively beautiful but deadly femme fatale, Milady, and DβArtagnanβs equally beautiful love, Madame Bonacieux, The Three Musketeers continues, after a century and a half of continuous publication, to define the genre of swashbuckling romance and historical adventure.
Alexandre Dumasβs most famous taleβ and possibly the most famous historical novel of all timeβ in a handsome hardcover volume.
This swashbuckling epic of chivalry, honor, and derring-do, set in France during the 1620s, is richly populated with romantic heroes, unattainable heroines, kings, queens, cavaliers, and criminals in a whirl of adventure, espionage, conspiracy, murder, vengeance, love, scandal, and suspense. Dumas transforms minor historical figures into larger- than-life characters: the Comte dβArtagnan, an impetuous young man in pursuit of glory; the beguilingly evil seductress βMiladyβ; the powerful and devious Cardinal Richelieu; the weak King Louis XIII and his unhappy queenβand, of course, the three musketeers themselves, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, whose motto βall for one, one for allβ has come to epitomize devoted friendship. With a plot that delivers stolen diamonds, masked balls, purloined letters, and, of course, great bouts of swordplay, The Three Musketeers is eternally entertaining.
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