The Three MusketeersTor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title—offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords. This edition of The Three Musketeers includes a Biographical Note by Stephen Brust. Giant Porthos; elegant Aramis; mysterious, haunted Athos: they are fearless, loyal and unstoppable. They're also rogues, seducers and swindlers. But when thousands will die in a war fought over lost love, and lethal royal intrigues are daily events, people don't just need heroes-They need legends. Armed only with quick wits and a lightning sword, young D'Artagnan just wants to serve with the King's Musketeers. He soon finds himself saving his queen from the subtle, deadly traps of her enemy, Cardinal Richelieu, and Richelieu's agent, the sadistic, beautiful monster Milady. Now Porthos, Aramis and Athos must keep the boy and his lover from being crushed in an international clash of political titans.... But can even the Three Musketeers help D'Artagnan save himself from the insane hatred of Milady's revenge? |
Contents
1 The Three Gifts of M dArtagnan the Elder | 1 |
2 The Antechamber of M de Tréville | 14 |
3 The Audience | 23 |
4 The Shoulder of Athos the Baldric of Porthos and the Handkerchief of Aramis | 33 |
5 The Kings Musketeers and the Cardinals Guards | 40 |
6 His Majesty King Louis XIII | 50 |
7 The Housekeeping of the Musketeers | 67 |
8 A Court Intrigue | 74 |
36 Dream of Vengeance | 335 |
37 MiIadys Secret | 341 |
38 How Without Incommoding Himself Athos Found His Outfit | 347 |
39 A Vision | 356 |
40 A Terrible Vision | 364 |
41 The Siege of Rochelle | 371 |
42 The Anjou Wine | 382 |
43 The Inn of the Red Dovecot | 388 |
9 DArtagnan Shows Himself | 82 |
10 A MouseTrap in the Seventeenth Century | 89 |
11 The Intrigue Grows Tangled | 98 |
12 George Villiers Duke of Buckingham | 113 |
13 Monsieur Bonacieux | 120 |
14 The Man of Meung | 128 |
15 Men of the Robe and Men of the Sword | 137 |
16 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 | 144 |
17 Bonacieux at Home | 154 |
18 The Lover and the Husband | 166 |
19 Plan of the Campaign | 172 |
20 The Journey | 180 |
21 The Comtesse de Winter | 190 |
22 The Ballet of La Merlaison | 198 |
23 The Rendezvous | 205 |
24 The Pavilion | 214 |
25 The Mistress of Porthos | 223 |
26 The Thesis of Aramis | 240 |
27 The Wife of Athos | 254 |
28 The Return | 271 |
29 Hunting for Their Equipments | 283 |
30 Milady | 291 |
31 English and French | 297 |
32 A Procurators Dinner | 304 |
33 Soubrette and Mistress | 312 |
34 In Which the Outfit of Aramis and Porthos Is Treated Of | 321 |
35 All Cats Are Gray in the Dark | 328 |
44 The Utility of StovePipes | 395 |
45 A Conjugal Scene | 402 |
46 The Bastion St Gervais | 408 |
47 The Council of the Musketeers | 414 |
48 A Family Affair | 428 |
49 Fatality | 441 |
50 Chat of a Brother with a Sister | 448 |
51 Officer | 455 |
52 The First Day of Captivity | 464 |
53 The Second Day of Captivity | 470 |
54 The Third Day of Captivity | 477 |
55 The Fourth Day of Captivity | 484 |
56 The Fifth Day of Captivity | 491 |
57 Means for CIassical Tragedy | 504 |
58 Escape | 510 |
59 What Took Place at Portsmouth Aug 23 1628 | 517 |
60 In France | 526 |
61 The Carmelite Convent at Béthune | 531 |
62 Two Varieties of Demons | 542 |
63 The Drop of Water | 547 |
64 The Man in the Red Cloak | 559 |
65 Judgment | 564 |
66 Execution | 571 |
67 The Cardinals Messenger | 575 |
EPILOGUE | 584 |
What Is a Classic? | 587 |
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Common terms and phrases
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