Books with title The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas’ classic novel of camaraderie which brought us the resounding cry: “All for one and one for all!”The young and headstrong D’Artagnan, having proven his bravery by dueling with each, becomes a friend of Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, members of the King’s Musketeers. At the urging of the woman he loves, he and his friends head for England to reclaim two diamond studs that the Queen imprudently gave to her lover, the Duke of Buckingham. However, the chief minister of King Louis XIII will resort to anything to stop the Musketeers from interfering with his plan to ruin Queen Anne’s reputation…even murder.The Three Musketeers is one of the world’s greatest adventure stories, and its heroes have become symbols of youth, daring, and friendship. Behind the flashing blades, Dumas explores the eternal conflict between good and evil.This novel is part of Brilliance Audio’s extensive Classic Collection, bringing you timeless masterpieces that you and your family are sure to love.

Dumas's tale of swashbuckling and heroism follows the fortunes of d'Artagnan, a headstrong country boy who travels to Paris to join the Musketeers - the bodyguard of King Louis XIII. Here he falls in with Athos, Porthos and Aramis, and the four friends soon find themselves caught up in court politics and intrigue. Together they must outwit Cardinal Richelieu and his plot to gain influence over the King, and thwart the beautiful spy Milady's scheme to disgrace the Queen.

"We read The Three Musketeers to experience a sense of romance and for the sheer excitement of the story," reflected Clifton Fadiman. "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."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.""Dumas will be read a hundred, nay, three hundred years on," wrote John Galsworthy. "His greatest creation is undoubtedly D'Artagnan, type at once of the fighting adventurer and of the trusty servant, whose wily blade is ever at the back of those whose hearts have neither his magnanimity nor his courage. Few, if any, characters in fiction inspire one with such belief in their individual existences. . . . To one who made D'Artagnan all shall be forgiven." Clifton Fadiman agreed: "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."

A major new translation depicts the epic adventures of musketeer-hopeful d'Artagnan and his swordsmen companions in a faithful rendition that endeavors to preserve the original author's wit, romance, and rollicking pace, in an edition that features an introduction to Dumas and the historical environment of his famous historical work. 25,000 first printing.

Original illustrations & cover artLinked chapters & end notes When young d'Artagnan leaves his family home in Gascony in hopes of joining the King's elite regiment of Musketeers in Paris, little does he realize what sort of adventure and intrigue await him. While the road to acceptance into the musketeers is not a smooth one, he will find love, loss, danger, and a friendship deeper than any he has ever known along the way.

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.’Adventurous and spirited in tone, The Three Musketeers is considered one of the greatest historical French novels. When Athos, Porthos and Aramis befriend a young and determined country boy d’Artagnan, together they confront the scheming King’s Minister, Cardinal Richelieu and the female spy Milady who threaten to undermine the King. Swashbuckling, romantic and often humourous, Dumas’ novel is a timeless tale of friendship and intrigue.

The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to become a musketeer. D'Artagnan is not one of the musketeers of the title; those are his friends Athos, Porthos, and Aramis—inseparable friends who live by the motto, "One for all, and all for one".The story of d'Artagnan is continued in Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne. Those three novels by Dumas are together known as the D'Artagnan Romances.The Three Musketeers was first published in serial form in the magazine Le Siècle between March and July 1844.

This classic was translated by Philip Schuyler Allen, with illustrations from Milo Winter. This is a fully digitized version with searchable text and full color art.“In the long ago when I was a boy, there were only three or four books that held me captive, and Dumas' The Three Musketeers was easily the first of these. I still recall the thrills of hot and cold, the shivers of fear, and the tremulous joy which possessed me when first I read the gallivanting and swashbuckling doings of young d'Artagnan.“Time after time, with intervals of years between, I have returned to this sprightly romance of those twilight days when knighthood was last in flower. And never have I yet laid down the story unrewarded by a new enjoyment as keen as was that with which I first made its acquaintance. I have traveled through its immortal pages at least ten times, and I am sure I shall still find many an hour o! breathless fun in its delightful company.“Well — in this book I have made a translation which I hope will carry home to a new generation of American boys and girls. Some of the French original I have omitted, notably one long episode that to my mind arrested the gay march of the narrative. Here and there I have cut out part of a chapter that was slightly soiling or unclean, and which seemed to dim the pure brightness of the rest of the book. And I have trimmed down the many historical allusions that are of slight interest to the young reader. “What have I left after my pruning? “I have left the story, as I imagine Dumas himself would have written it if he had lived in our later day. In the present volume the romance speeds straight to its goal with the swiftness of an arrow. There is no moment of hesitation in it now — not an instant of dullness. I have mined and minted the gold of it.” – by Philip Schuyler Allen, The University of Chicago