The Three Musketeers Illustrated: Over 200 Illustrations by Maurice Leloir

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CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Jan 16, 2015 - Fiction - 570 pages
With over 200 beautiful illustrations by the French artist, Maurice Leloir, this is the definitive illustrated edition of The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas. From an edition originally published in 1898, this edition has been reproduced for the first time. The text is complete and unabridged and combines both volumes of the classic novel into one book. The Three Musketeers, the classic story of action, adventure and intrigue in the Seventeenth Century, by the undisputed master of the historical novel, Alexander Dumas. With his heart set upon becoming a Musketeer, the young d'Artagnan travels to Paris and before a single day passes he meets and is befriended by three of the most infamous of that Elite Company, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, and he quickly becomes entangled in courtly intrigues with the Sinister Agents of Cardinal Richelieu, including the dastardly Comte de Rochefort and the notorious Milady de Winter. Detailing actual events and based upon the memoirs of a real-life Captain of the Musketeers, Charles de Batz de Castlemore, also known as d'Artagnan, the Three Musketeers remains one of the most widely read and beloved books of all time.

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About the author (2015)

After an idle youth, Alexandre Dumas went to Paris and spent some years writing. A volume of short stories and some farces were his only productions until 1927, when his play Henri III (1829) became a success and made him famous. It was as a storyteller rather than a playwright, however, that Dumas gained enduring success. Perhaps the most broadly popular of French romantic novelists, Dumas published some 1,200 volumes during his lifetime. These were not all written by him, however, but were the works of a body of collaborators known as "Dumas & Co." Some of his best works were plagiarized. For example, The Three Musketeers (1844) was taken from the Memoirs of Artagnan by an eighteenth-century writer, and The Count of Monte Cristo (1845) from Penchet's A Diamond and a Vengeance. At the end of his life, drained of money and sapped by his work, Dumas left Paris and went to live at his son's villa, where he remained until his death.

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