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The Three Musketeers

by Alexandre Dumas

Grade B+
Finished January 16, 2013
Genre Historical Fiction
Publisher Phoemixx Classics Ebooks, 2021

My Review

I was surprised how readable this book was. It was a lot of fun and interesting for the different sensibilities of the time it was written.

Publisher Description

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 Aramisinseparable 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.