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The three musketeers / Alexandre Dumas ; with an introduction by Allan Massie.

Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870 (Author). Massie, Allan, 1938- (Added Author).

Summary:

"A swashbuckling epic of chivalry, honor, and derring-do, it is set in France during the 1620s and 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 major and minor historical figures into larger-than-life characters: the brave 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 epitmize the 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"--Publisher description, p. [2] of dust jacket.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780307594990 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 0307594998 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: xlv, 625 p. ; 21 cm.
  • Edition: New ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Everymans Library, 2011.

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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.
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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.

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The Three Musketeers : Introduction by Allan Massie
The Three Musketeers : Introduction by Allan Massie
by Dumas, Alexandre.; Massie, Allan (Introduction by)
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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)

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