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  • Published: 17 October 2023
  • ISBN: 9781784878429
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 816
  • RRP: $22.99

The Three Musketeers




VINTAGE CLASSICS FRENCH SERIES: stunning flapped paperback editions showcasing the bestselling, most acclaimed French writers of the twentieth century.

All for one, and one for all!

The young D'Artagnan and the legendary musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis are 'the inseparables' - ready to sacrifice everything in a duel or game of dice in order to defend their honour or that of the King and Queen of France. Handsome and hot-tempered, they dive into raging battles or back-street conspiracies with gusto, especially if by their daring deeds they can thwart the wicked devices of their arch-enemy, Cardinal Richelieu, and his mysterious accomplice, Milady de Winter.

'Pure swashbuckling pleasure' Daily Telegraph

TRANSLATED BY WILL HOBSON

VINTAGE FRENCH CLASSICS - six masterpieces of French fiction in gorgeous new gift editions.

  • Published: 17 October 2023
  • ISBN: 9781784878429
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 816
  • RRP: $22.99

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About the author

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas was a French playwright, historian and prolific novelist, penning a string of successful books including The Three Musketeers (1844), The Count of Monte Cristo (1845), and Twenty Years After(1845). His novels have been translated into a hundred different languages and inspired over two hundred films. In his day Dumas was as famous for his financial irresponsibility and flamboyant lifestyle as for his writing. Dumas died in 1870.

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Praise for The Three Musketeers

Massive, funny, moving, exhaustingly gripping: a melodrama, a revenge drama and, literally, bodice-ripping

Adam Thirlwell, Independent on Sunday

There was nobody quicker than Dumas. There were few better. Dumas stands proudly in the pantheon of 19th-century greats. He deserves to be regarded alongside Dickens and Tolstoy as an influential, enduring writer

Glasgow Herald

Dumas's novels are shameless word-guzzlers, big and plush and almost sinfully comfortable… If Dumas was a hack, he was a hack with genius. His storytelling never seems the least bit mechanical: no assembly line, then or now, could ever turn out a narrative as joyful, as eccentric, as maddeningly human as The Three Musketeers

New York Times

[Dumas's books] are fast-moving page-turners; vivid, bombastic and irresistible, with their unforgettable characters and flamboyant splatter of French history

Irish Times

The most popular man of the century... More than French...European; more than European...universal

Victor Hugo

Dumas does dialogue like a scriptwriter on nitrous oxide

Scotland on Sunday