The Three Musketeers: Alexandre Dumas: 133 (Macmillan Collector's Library, 133) - Hardcover

Dumas, Alexandre

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1509842934 ISBN 13: 9781509842933

Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library, 2017

Synopsis

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It is 1625 and France is under threat. D’Artagnan, a young nobleman, sets off to Paris to seek his fortune as a member of the King's Guard and befriends three musketeers - the mysterious Athos, ambitious and romantic Aramis, and bumbling Porthos. Together the friends must use all their guile and ingenuity to outwit the dastardly schemes of Cardinal Richelieu and the glamorous spy, Milady.

As fresh and entertaining today as when it was first written, Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers is a gripping adventure story of daring sword fights, romances, espionage and murder.

This sensitively abridged Macmillan Collector’s Library edition of The Three Musketeers features an afterword by playwright, screenwriter and actor, Peter Harness.

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About this title

About the Author

Alexandre Dumas was born in 1802. After a childhood of extreme poverty, he took work as a clerk, and met the renowned actor Talma, and began to write short pieces for the theatre. After twenty years of success as a playwright, Dumas turned his hand to novel-writing, and penned such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo (1844), La Reine Margot (1845) and The Black Tulip (1850). After enduring a short period of bankruptcy, Dumas began to travel extensively, still keeping up a prodigious output of journalism, short fiction and novels. He fathered an illegitimate child, also called Alexandre, who would grow up to write La Dame aux Camélias. He died in Dieppe in 1870.

From the Back Cover

An abridged edition of Alexandre Dumas's flamboyant tale of action and adventure in seventeenth-century France.

Edition details

• Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1509842934
• ISBN 13: 9781509842933
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 688