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The Three Musketeers eBooks
By: Alexandre Dumas ~ Introduction by: Jacques Georges Clemenc Le Clercq
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The Three Musketeers Summary
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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."
"We read The Three Musketeers to experience a sense of romance and for the sheer excitement of the story. 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." CLIFTON FADIMAN "Dumas enjoyed writing his stories... The pleasure he must have felt in creating D'Artagnan's troubles and triumphs flashes 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." "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." "The lasting and universal popularity of The Three Musketeers shows that Dumas, by artlessly expressing his own nature in the persons of his heroes, was responding to that craving for action, strength and generosity which is a fact in all periods and all places."
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