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The Three Musketeers

Introduction by Allan Massie

Author: Alexandre Dumas and Allan Massie   Series: Everyman's Library Classics Series

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Alexandre Dumas's most famous tale- and possibly the most famous historical novel of all time- in a handsome hardcover volume.

Dumas's most popular novel has long been a favorite with children, and its swashbuckling heroes are well known from many a film and TV adaptation. Set in 17th-century France, this tale of the adventures of D'Artagnan and the three musketeers is the finest example of its author's brilliantly inventive storytelling genius.

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Alexandre Dumas's most famous tale- and possibly the most famous historical novel of all time- in a handsome hardcover volume.

Dumas's most popular novel has long been a favorite with children, and its swashbuckling heroes are well known from many a film and TV adaptation. Set in 17th-century France, this tale of the adventures of D'Artagnan and the three musketeers is the finest example of its author's brilliantly inventive storytelling genius.

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Alexandre Dumas's most famous tale- and possibly the most famous historical novel of all time- in a handsome hardcover volume.Alexandre Dumas's most famous tale- and possibly the most famous historical novel of all time- 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 d'Artagnan, an impetuous young man in pursuit of glory; the beguilingly evil seductress "Milady"; the powerful and devious Cardinal Richelieu; the weak King Louis XIII and his unhappy queen-and, of course, the three musketeers themselves, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, whose motto "all for one, one for all" 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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“"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 From the Paperback edition.”

"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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About the Author

Alexandre Dumas was born in 1802 in France and died in 1870.Allan Massie is the author of more than twenty historical novels, including Charlemagne and Roland, and has written about Colette, Lord Byron, and Muriel Spark.

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Product Details

Publisher
Random House USA Inc | Random House Inc
Published
15th February 2011
Pages
680
ISBN
9780307594990

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