Publisher's Synopsis
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
First published in 1844, Alexandre Dumas's swashbuckling epic chronicles the adventures of D'Artagnan, a young nobleman who travels to Paris in 1625 in hopes of joining the ranks of Musketeers guarding Louis XIII. Soon he finds himself fighting alongside three heroic comrades, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, who seek to defend the king's honor by foiling the evil plots of Cardinal Richelieu and the beautiful spy "Milady." As Clifton Fadiman reflects, "We read The Three Musketeers for a sense of romance and for the sheer emotion of the story. In these violent pages all is action, intrigue, suspense, surprise: an almost endless chain of duels, murder, love Adventures, exposures, ambushes, escapes like a hair, wild walks. Everything is impossible and everything is magnificent.
