The Three Musketeers: Introduction by Allan Massie (Everyman's Library Classics Series) - Hardcover

Dumas, Alexandre

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0307594998 ISBN 13: 9780307594990

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2011

Alexandre Dumas's most famous tale-- and possibly the most famous historical novel of all time-- in a handsome hardcover volume.

This swashbuckling epic of chivalry, honor, and derring-do, set in France during the 1620s, is richly populated with romantic heroes, unattainable heroines, kings, queens, cavaliers, and criminals in a whirl of adventure, espionage, conspiracy, murder, vengeance, love, scandal, and suspense. Dumas transforms minor historical figures into larger- than-life characters: the Comte d'Artagnan, an impetuous young man in pursuit of glory; the beguilingly evil seductress "Milady"; the powerful and devious Cardinal Richelieu; the weak King Louis XIII and his unhappy queen--and, of course, the three musketeers themselves, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, whose motto "all for one, one for all" has come to epitomize devoted friendship. With a plot that delivers stolen diamonds, masked balls, purloined letters, and, of course, great bouts of swordplay, The Three Musketeers is eternally entertaining.

Review:

"I do not say there is no character as well-drawn in Shakespeare [as D'Artagnan]. I do say there is none that I love so wholly."
--Robert Louis Stevenson

Book Description:

Dumas's most famous story and possibly the most famous historical novel of all time.

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0307594998
• ISBN 13: 9780307594990
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 680