The Three Musketeers (Great Illustrated Classics)

Alexandre Dumas

ISBN 10: 0866119663 / ISBN 13: 9780866119665

Published by Baronet, 1990

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0866119663I3N00

Synopsis:

Dumas, Alexandre; ed. by Malvina G. Vogel, Three Musketeers, The

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

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Three Musketeers (Great Illustrated ...
Publisher: Baronet
Publication Date: 1990
Binding: Unknown
Illustrator: Earl Norem
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket