The Three Musketeers: Introduction by Allan MassieAlexandre Dumas’s most famous tale— and possibly the most famous historical novel of all time— in a handsome hardcover volume. This swashbuckling epic of chivalry, honor, and derring-do, set in France during the 1620s, is richly populated with romantic heroes, unattainable heroines, kings, queens, cavaliers, and criminals in a whirl of adventure, espionage, conspiracy, murder, vengeance, love, scandal, and suspense. Dumas transforms minor historical figures into larger- than-life characters: the Comte d’Artagnan, an impetuous young man in pursuit of glory; the beguilingly evil seductress “Milady”; the powerful and devious Cardinal Richelieu; the weak King Louis XIII and his unhappy queen—and, of course, the three musketeers themselves, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, whose motto “all for one, one for all” has come to epitomize devoted friendship. With a plot that delivers stolen diamonds, masked balls, purloined letters, and, of course, great bouts of swordplay, The Three Musketeers is eternally entertaining. |
Contents
English and French A Procurators Dinner Soubrette and Mistress | 31 |
The Audience | 33 |
In Which the Outfit of Aramis and Porthos is Treated | 34 |
All Cats are Grey in the Dark | 35 |
Dream of Vengeance | 36 |
Miladys Secret | 37 |
How Without Incommoding Himself Athos Found His Outfit | 38 |
A Vision | 39 |
A Court Intrigue | 87 |
DArtagnan Shows Himself | 95 |
IO A Mousetrap in the Seventeenth Century | 103 |
The Intrigue Grows Tangled | 112 |
George Villiers Duke of Buckingham | 128 |
Monsieur Bonacieux | 136 |
The Man of Meung | 144 |
Men of the Robe and Men of the Sword | 153 |
A Terrible Vision The Siege of Rochelle | 41 |
The Anjou Wine | 42 |
The Inn of the Red Dovecot | 43 |
The Shoulder of Athos the Baldric of Porthos and the Handkerchief of Aramis | 44 |
The Council of the Musketeers | 47 |
A Family Affair | 48 |
Fatality | 49 |
Chat of a Brother with a Sister Officer | 50 |
The Kings Musketeers and the Cardinals Guards | 51 |
The First Day of Captivity The Second Day of Captivity | 52 |
The Fourth Day of Captivity | 55 |
The Fifth Day of Captivity | 56 |
Means for Classical Tragedy | 57 |
Escape | 58 |
His Majesty King Louis XIII | 61 |
Two Varieties of Demonst | 62 |
The Drop of Water | 63 |
The Man in the Red Cloak | 64 |
Judgment | 65 |
Execution | 66 |
The Cardinals Messenger | 67 |
The Housekeeping of the Musketeers | 79 |
In Which M Séguier the Keeper of the Seals Looks More than Once for the Bell in Order to Ring It as He Did Before | 161 |
Bonacieux at Home | 172 |
The Lover and the Husband | 184 |
Plan of the Campaign | 191 |
The Journey | 199 |
The Comtesse de Winter | 210 |
The Ballet of La Merlaison | 219 |
The Rendezvous | 225 |
The Pavilion | 235 |
The Mistress of Porthos | 244 |
The Thesis of Aramis | 262 |
The Wife of Athos | 277 |
The Return | 295 |
Hunting for Their Equipments | 308 |
Milady | 316 |
Epilogue | 323 |
348 | 355 |
411 | 418 |
498 | 504 |
S11 19 527 40 | 546 |
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