Name: Three Musketeers: 1 (Modern Library Classics)
SKU: 1609855
Price: 578.00 TWD
Availability: InStock
Author: Alejandro Dumas
ISBN: 9780375756740

portada Three Musketeers: 1 (Modern Library Classics)

Three Musketeers: 1 (Modern Library Classics)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Introduction by

Translated by

Publisher

Year

2001

Language

English

Pages

607

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3x13.4x2.4 cm

Weight

0.51 kg.

ISBN

0375756744

ISBN13

9780375756740

Synopsis "Three Musketeers: 1 (Modern Library Classics) "

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." As Clifton Fadiman reflected, "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."

Alejandro Dumas

(Author)

View Author's Page

Alexandre Dumas is one of the most prolific and popular authors from France. He was born in 1802 in the city of Villers-Cotterets, and soon moved to Paris to work as a secretary for the Duke of Orléans. There, he completed his education on his own and began to take an interest in writing.
He started by writing plays, and then moved on to poems and long stories. However, his real success did not come until 1844, the year he released the work that would catapult him to fame: The Three Musketeers. The serial publication of this novel brought him a huge sum of money, but it also meant countless hours of work, many collaborators, and the production of up to eighty installments to meet the growing public demand.
After the publication of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, Dumas amassed a great fortune. However, his hedonistic nature led him to squander all he had earned and he soon found himself forced to exile in Belgium to escape his French creditors.
The Count of Monte Cristo, the pinnacle of the author's narrative, is considered one of the greatest adventure novels of all time.

See less