The Three Musketeers Hardcover by Alexandre Dumas; Introduction by Allan Massie

Product Details

• Publisher: Everyman's Library (2011-02-15)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 680 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780307594990
• Item Weight: 714.42 grams
• Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 1.45 cm

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.

About the Author

Alexandre Dumas was born in 1802 in France and died in 1870.

Allan Massie is the author of more than twenty historical novels, including Charlemagne and Roland, and has written about Colette, Lord Byron, and Muriel Spark.