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The three musketeers

A young adventurer joins three musketeers, in the service of Louis XIII, and becomes involved in Cardinal Richelieu's plots to embarrass the royal family.

Main Author: Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870.
Other Authors: Bair, Lowell
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
French
Published: New York : Bantam Classics, 1984.
Subjects:
Swordsmen > Fiction.
France > History > Louis XIII, 1610-1643 > Fiction.
Summary: A young adventurer joins three musketeers, in the service of Louis XIII, and becomes involved in Cardinal Richelieu's plots to embarrass the royal family.
Item Description: Translation of Les trois mousquetaires.
Physical Description: 635 pages
ISBN: 9780553213379
0553213377
Author Notes: After an idle youth, Alexandre Dumas went to Paris and spent some years writing. A volume of short stories and some farces were his only productions until 1927, when his play Henri III (1829) became a success and made him famous. It was as a storyteller rather than a playwright, however, that Dumas gained enduring success. Perhaps the most broadly popular of French romantic novelists, Dumas published some 1,200 volumes during his lifetime. These were not all written by him, however, but were the works of a body of collaborators known as "Dumas & Co." Some of his best works were plagiarized. For example, The Three Musketeers (1844) was taken from the Memoirs of Artagnan by an eighteenth-century writer, and The Count of Monte Cristo (1845) from Penchet's A Diamond and a Vengeance. At the end of his life, drained of money and sapped by his work, Dumas left Paris and went to live at his son's villa, where he remained until his death.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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