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The Three Musketeers

By Alexandre Dumas
Introduction by Alan Furst
Translated by Jacques Le Clercq

By Alexandre Dumas
Introduction by Alan Furst
Translated by Jacques Le Clercq

By Alexandre Dumas
Translated by Jacques Le Clercq

By Alexandre Dumas
Translated by Jacques Le Clercq

By Alexandre Dumas
Translated by Jacques Le Clercq

By Alexandre Dumas
Translated by Jacques Le Clercq

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Part of Modern Library Classics

Part of Modern Library Classics

Part of Modern Library Classics

Paperback $17.00

Feb 13, 2001 | ISBN 9780375756740

Hardcover $26.00

Nov 18, 1999 | ISBN 9780679603320

Ebook $3.99

Nov 01, 2000 | ISBN 9780679641407

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    About The Three Musketeers

    First published in 1844, Alexandre Dumas’s swashbuckling epic chronicles the adventures of D’Artagnan, a gallant young nobleman who journeys to Paris in 1625 hoping to join the ranks of musketeers guarding Louis XIII. He soon finds himself fighting alongside three heroic comrades—Athos, Porthos, and Aramis—who seek to uphold the honor of the king by foiling the wicked plots of Cardinal Richelieu and the beautiful spy "Milady." As Clifton Fadiman reflected, "We read The Three Musketeers to experience a sense of romance and for the sheer excitement of the story. In these violent pages all is action, intrigue, suspense, surprise—an almost endless chain of duels, murders, love affairs, unmaskings, ambushes, hairbreadth escapes, wild rides. It is all impossible and it is all magnificent."

    About The Three Musketeers

    “We read The Three Musketeers to experience a sense of romance and for the sheer excitement of the story,” reflected Clifton Fadiman. “In these violent pages all is action, intrigue, suspense, surprise–an almost endless chain of duels, murders, love affairs, unmaskings, ambushes, hairbreadth escapes, wild rides. It is all impossible and it is all magnificent.”

    First published in 1844, Alexandre Dumas’s swashbuckling epic chronicles the adventures of D’Artagnan, a gallant young nobleman who journeys to Paris in 1625 hoping to join the ranks of musketeers guarding Louis XIII. He soon finds himself fighting alongside three heroic comrades–Athos, Porthos, and Aramis–who seek to uphold the honor of the king by foiling the wicked plots of Cardinal Richelieu and the beautiful spy “Milady.”

    “Dumas will be read a hundred, nay, three hundred years on,” wrote John Galsworthy. “His greatest creation is undoubtedly D’Artagnan, type at once of the fighting adventurer and of the trusty servant, whose wily blade is ever at the back of those whose hearts have neither his magnanimity nor his courage. Few, if any, characters in fiction inspire one with such belief in their individual existences. . . . To one who made D’Artagnan all shall be forgiven.” Clifton Fadiman agreed: “Dumas enjoyed writing his stories. . . . The pleasure he must have felt in
    creating D’Artagnan’s troubles and triumphs flashes out of these pages. . . . Dumas rampaged through the history of France, inventing, changing, distorting–doing whatever was needed to produce a tale to hold the reader breathless.”

    About The Three Musketeers

    First published in 1844, Alexandre Dumas’s swashbuckling epic chronicles the adventures of D’Artagnan, a gallant young nobleman who journeys to Paris in 1625 hoping to join the ranks of musketeers guarding Louis XIII. He soon finds himself fighting alongside three heroic comrades—Athos, Porthos, and Aramis—who seek to uphold the honor of the king by foiling the wicked plots of Cardinal Richelieu and the beautiful spy "Milady." As Clifton Fadiman reflected, "We read The Three Musketeers to experience a sense of romance and for the sheer excitement of the story. In these violent pages all is action, intrigue, suspense, surprise—an almost endless chain of duels, murders, love affairs, unmaskings, ambushes, hairbreadth escapes, wild rides. It is all impossible and it is all magnificent."

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    About Alexandre Dumas

    Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) lived a life as romantic as that depicted in his famous novels. He was born in Villers-Cotterêts, France. His early education was scanty, but his beautiful handwriting secured him a position in Paris in 1822 with the du’Orléans,… More about Alexandre Dumas

    About Alexandre Dumas

    Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) lived a life as romantic as that depicted in his famous novels. He was born in Villers-Cotterêts, France. His early education was scanty, but his beautiful handwriting secured him a position in Paris in 1822 with the du’Orléans,… More about Alexandre Dumas

    About Alexandre Dumas

    Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) lived a life as romantic as that depicted in his famous novels. He was born in Villers-Cotterêts, France. His early education was scanty, but his beautiful handwriting secured him a position in Paris in 1822 with the du’Orléans,… More about Alexandre Dumas

    Product Details

    Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Modern Library
    Feb 13, 2001 | 640 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375756740

    Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Hardcover | $26.00
    Published by Modern Library
    Nov 18, 1999 | 624 Pages | 5-3/8 x 8 | ISBN 9780679603320

    Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Ebook | $3.99
    Published by Modern Library
    Nov 01, 2000 | 624 Pages | ISBN 9780679641407

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    "I do not say there is no character as well-drawn in Shakespeare [as D’Artagnan]. I do say there is none that I love so wholly."
    —Robert Louis Stevenson

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