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  • Published: 3 March 2014
  • ISBN: 9780099583165
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 752
  • RRP: $19.99

The Three Musketeers

  • Alexandre Dumas




‘God’s teeth!’ Unfailingly exciting and a complete joy to read, this new translation of The Three Musketeers is published to coincide with the lavish BBC adaptation to be aired this month.

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.

All for one, and one for all!

  • Published: 3 March 2014
  • ISBN: 9780099583165
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 752
  • RRP: $19.99

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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

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

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 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

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

Adam Thirlwell, Independent on Sunday
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