The Three Musketeers:
Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequel

by Alexandre Dumas, George Stade, Barbara T. Cooper

ISBN 1593081480 / 9781593081485 / 1-59308-148-0
Publisher Sterling Pub Co Inc
Language English
Edition Softcover
List price $8.95
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Mixing a bit of seventeenth-century French history with a great deal of invention, Alexandre Dumas tells the tale of young DArtagnan and his musketeer comrades, Porthos, Athos and Aramis. Together they fight to foil the schemes of the brilliant, dangerous Cardinal Richelieu, who pretends to support the king while plotting to advance his own power. Bursting with swirling swordplay, swooning romance, and unforgettable figures such as the seductively beautiful but deadly femme fatale, Milady, and DArtagnans equally beautiful love, Madame Bonacieux, The Three Musketeers continues, after a century and a half of continuous publication, to define the genre of swashbuckling romance and historical adventure.

Barbara T. Cooper is Professor of French at the University of New Hampshire. She is a member of the editorial boards of Nineteenth-Century French Studies and the Cahiers Alexandre Dumas and specializes in nineteenth-century French drama and works by Dumas.

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