The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas, Jacques Le Clercq

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French

Modern Library
15 November 1999

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Series: Modern Library Classics

""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 triumphsflashes 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.""

By: Alexandre Dumas
Translated by: Jacques Le Clercq
Imprint: Modern Library
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 211mm, Width: 142mm, Spine: 36mm
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9780679603320
ISBN 10: 0679603328
Series: Modern Library Classics
Pages: 684
Publication Date: 15 November 1999
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Other merchandise
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Three Musketeers

The swashbuckling triumvirate charge and dodge again in C. Walter Hodges black and white drawings which have an appropriately etching-like character. Full color plates are of uneven interest. (Kirkus Reviews)