Three Musketeers - Hardcover

Dumas, Alexandre; Le Clercq, Jacques; Price, Norman; Van Swearingen, E. C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0448060248 ISBN 13: 9780448060248

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap, 1953

Synopsis

D'Artagnan, who wants to become a member of the Musketeers, the King's personal guard, is sent on a mission to England to prevent Cardinal Richelieu from discrediting the Queen.

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Review:

This swashbuckling classic is set in Louis XIII's France at the same time as Descartes' wanderings took him in 1627 to La Rochelle, whose Huguenot occupants were being besieged by Cardinal Richelieu. Dumas's cardinal, one of the book's many real-life characters, is simultaneously laying devilish plans to be rid of d'Artagnan and his fellow musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis. I'd forgotten how complex the plot is, how relentless the action (you can't cut to the chase the whole thing is one long desperate chase on horseback, in postillions, aboard ships) and how outrageous the characters. There's no grey in Dumas's novels, especially where women are concerned. The goodies, such as saintly Constance Bonacieux with whom our brave, penniless, honourable, hot-headed young hero from Gascony, d'Artagnan, is in love are purest snowy white. The baddies, represented by beautiful, treacherous Milady de Winter, once bigamously married to Athos and now working as a spy for Richelieu, make Madame Defarge look as dangerous as Miss Muffet. --Sue Arnold, The Guardian

About the Author:

Alexandre Dumas (24 July 1802 - 5 December 1870) was an eccentric and wildly successful French writer. He is best known for his tales of high adventure, such as "The Three Musketeers" and "The Count of Monte Cristo." He is one of the most widely read French authors in the world.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
• Publication date: 1953
• ISBN 10: 0448060248
• ISBN 13: 9780448060248
• Binding: Hardcover