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The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Fiction, Classics, Historical, Action &
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The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Fiction, Classics, Historical, Action & Adventure Hardcover - 2002

by Alexandre Dumas


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The Three Musketeers is a novel written by Alexandre Dumas. It recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to become a guard of the musketeers. D'Artagnan is not one of the musketeers of the title, which refers to Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, three inseparable friends who live by the motto: "All for one, one for all" ("Tous pour un, un pour tous"). The story of d'Artagnan is continued in Dumas' Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne. The three novels are together known as the d'Artagnan Romances. 

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D'Artagnan Romance I In March 1844 the French magazine Le Siecle, printed the first installemnt of a story by Alexandre Dumas. It was based, Dumas claimed, on some manuscripts he had found a year earlier in the Bibliotheque Nationale while researching a history he planned to write on Louis XIV. The serial chronicled the adventures of D'Artagnan -- a young swordsman intent on joining the king's musketeers. Young D'Artagnan becomes embroiled in court intrigues, international politics, and ill-fated affairs between royal lovers. This volume of the serial -- The Three Musketeers is set in the year 1625. The D'Artagnan arrives in Paris at the tender age of 18, and that very day gives offese to three musketeers -- Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Duels are agreed -- but interrupted by five of the Cardinal's guards. Instead of dueling, the four are attacked. D'Artagnan acquits himself impressively: his youthful courage becomes apparent during the battle. The four become friends, and, when asked by D'Artagnan's landlord to find his missing wife, embark upon an adventure that takes them across both France and England in order to thwart the plans of the Cardinal Richelieu. Along the way, they encounter a beautiful young spy, whom they know at first only as Milady, who will stop at nothing to disgrace Queen Anne of Austria before her husband, Louis XIII, and take revenge upon the musketeers. (Jacketless library hardcover.)

First Edition Identification

The Three Musketeers was originally published as a serial novel, appearing one chapter at a time in the Parisian newspaper Le Siècle from March 14, 1844 to July 1, 1844.

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  • Title The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Fiction, Classics, Historical, Action & Adventure
  • Author Alexandre Dumas
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 548
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Borgo Press
  • Date 2002-11
  • ISBN 9781592248612 / 1592248616
  • Weight 2.21 lbs (1.00 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.46 x 6.14 x 1.51 in (24.03 x 15.60 x 3.84 cm)
  • Reading level 560
  • Library of Congress subjects Swordplay, France - History - Louis XIII, 1610-1643
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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