The three musketeers / Alexandre Dumas ; with an introduction by Allan Massie.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307594990 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0307594998 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xlv, 625 p. ; 21 cm.
- Edition: New ed.
- Publisher: New York : Everymans Library, 2011.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. xxi). |
Language Note: | Translated from the French. |
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Subject: | France > History > Louis XIII, 1610-1643 > Fiction. Swordsmen > Fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | PQ 2228 .U338 T47 2011 | 30775305464100 | General Collection | Available | - |
Author Notes
The Three Musketeers : Introduction by Allan Massie
After an idle youth, Alexandre Dumas went to Paris and spent some years writing. A volume of short stories and some farces were his only productions until 1927, when his play Henri III (1829) became a success and made him famous. It was as a storyteller rather than a playwright, however, that Dumas gained enduring success. Perhaps the most broadly popular of French romantic novelists, Dumas published some 1,200 volumes during his lifetime. These were not all written by him, however, but were the works of a body of collaborators known as "Dumas & Co." Some of his best works were plagiarized. For example, The Three Musketeers (1844) was taken from the Memoirs of Artagnan by an eighteenth-century writer, and The Count of Monte Cristo (1845) from Penchet's A Diamond and a Vengeance. At the end of his life, drained of money and sapped by his work, Dumas left Paris and went to live at his son's villa, where he remained until his death. (Bowker Author Biography)