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The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
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The Three Musketeers (original 1844; edition 1984)

by Alexandre Dumas, Lowell Bair (Translator)

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The Three Musketeers follows the young d'Artagnan in his quest to become a musketeer. He befriends the three musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis, whose motto is "all for one, one for all."

The novel is the first in Dumas' d'Artagnan Romances trilogy.

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Title:The Three Musketeers
Authors:Alexandre Dumas
Other authors:Lowell Bair (Translator)
Info:Bantam Classics (1984), Mass Market Paperback, 656 pages
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Rating:****
Tags:fiction, historical fiction, adventure, France, 17th century

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  highlandcow | Mar 13, 2024 |
J'ai pris cela en place dans les années à Paris plusieurs dos et même si je savais l'histoire des films, j'ai trouvé la lecture de l'original français tout à fait une balade. Je suis toujours méfiant de lire des traductions. Même si beaucoup sont étonnamment bien fait, j'ai découvert que quelque chose d'intrinsèque est souvent perdu à moins que le traducteur est vraiment bon à leur travail. Personnellement, je pense que la littérature espagnole souffre le plus de cette maladie dans l'hémisphère occidental. C'est une histoire merveilleuse et un excellent début de cette série, un jour je vais avoir à le lire en anglais. J'espère qu'il sera tout aussi excitant! (même si Keifer Sutherland n'est pas en elle)
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I picked this up while in Paris several years back and while I knew the story from the films, I found reading it in the original French to be quite a thrilling ride. I am always leery of reading translations. Even though many are done amazingly well, I've discovered that something intrinsic is often lost unless the translator is really good at their work. Personally I think spanish literature suffers the most from this malady in the western hemisphere. This is a wonderful story and an excellent start to this series, one day I'll get around to reading it in English. I'm hoping it will be just as exciting! (even if Keifer Sutherland isn't in it) ( )
  Kiri | Dec 24, 2023 |
Such books can't have a proper intelligent and weighted rating. It's pure classic to read in that right teen age and open the world of high adventure with it. It's like a first girlfriend in some sense of wordplay :).

Probably that is why I re-read this book many times but couldn't even finish continuations (or any other Dumas book for that matter). One can't enter the same river twice. ( )
  WorkLastDay | Dec 17, 2023 |
This book definitely shows it's age, everyone is super dramatic and emotional, the gentlemen drink wine like water, the servants are being threatened and abused, and all ladies are either saints or cunning devils.
Won't read again, won't read any sequels, would only recommend if you like very... slow... melodrama. ( )
  Yggie | Oct 12, 2023 |
Lo arranque a leer pero a la mitad me desenganche ( )
  mahebelen | Aug 25, 2023 |
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Dumas, Alexandreprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Allen, Philip SchuylerTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Aventi, GiuseppeTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Baeza, JoseTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Barrow, WilliamTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Barthel, SvenTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Beaucé, Jean-Adolphesecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Blair, LowellTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Blitt, BarryCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Bräuning, HerbertÜbersetzersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
BrugueraEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Canon, Raymond R.Translatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Charles, MiltonCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Cooper, Barbara T.Introductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Coward, DavidTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Dark, SidneyIntroductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Ellsworth, LawrenceTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Espié, ChristelIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Gauld, TomCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Gyllander, HugoTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Hirvensalo, LauriTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Hobson, WillTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Hochman, EleanorTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Kidd, TomIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Le Clercq, Jacques Georges ClemenceauTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Lee, JasmineCover designersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Legrand, EdyIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Leloir, MauriceIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Lord, Isabel ElyTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Manganelli, GiorgioForewordsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Molino, WalterIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Pevear, RichardTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Price, NormanIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Robson, WilliamTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Sigaux, GilbertEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Sudley, Arthur PaulTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Tortonese, PaoloIntroductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Vallely, Henry E.Illustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Van Swearingen, E.C.Illustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Wolter, ChristineNachwortsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Zini, MarisaTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed

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On the first Monday of April 1625, the market town of Meung, the birthplace of the author of the Roman de la Rose, was in a wild state of excitement.
[Author's Preface] It is about a year ago, that in making researches in the Bibliotheque Nationale for my History of Louis the Fourteenth, I by chance met with the Memoirs of Monsieur d'Artagnan, printed by Peter the Red at Amsterdam – as the principal works of that period, when authors could not adhere to the truth without running the risk of the Bastile, generally were.
[Epilogue] La Rochelle, deprived of the assistance of the English fleet, and of the succour which had been promised by Buckingham, surrendered after a year's siege.
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Athos: Well, D'Artagnan, if he doesn't come, it will be because of some delay. He may have tumbled off his horse or fallen on some slippery deck or ridden so fast against the wind that he is ill with a fever. Let us allow for the unforseen, gentlemen, since all is a gamble and life is a chaplet of minor miseries which, bead by bead, your philosopher tells with a smile. Be philosophers as I am, friends; sit down here and let us drink.
D'Artagnan's father: A gentleman makes his way by his courage; by his courage alone! Whosoever trembles but for a second has perhaps lost the bait which fortune held out to him in precisely that second.
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This is the main work for The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas père. It should not be combined with any adaptation, abridgement, etc.

This work has also been published (complete and unabridged) under the ISBN 1-55902-983-8 by Aerie Publications, which apparently decided to break the rules and publish multiple classics under the same ISBN.
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The Three Musketeers follows the young d'Artagnan in his quest to become a musketeer. He befriends the three musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis, whose motto is "all for one, one for all."

The novel is the first in Dumas' d'Artagnan Romances trilogy.

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This swashbuckling epic of chivalry, honor, and derring-do, set in France during the 1620s, is richly populated with romantic heroes, unattainable heroines, kings, queens, cavaliers, and criminals in a whirl of adventure, espionage, conspiracy, murder, vengeance, love, scandal, and suspense. Dumas transforms minor historical figures into larger- than-life characters: the Comte d’Artagnan, an impetuous young man in pursuit of glory; the beguilingly evil seductress “Milady”; the powerful and devious Cardinal Richelieu; the weak King Louis XIII and his unhappy queen—and, of course, the three musketeers themselves, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, whose motto “all for one, one for all” has come to epitomize devoted friendship. With a plot that delivers stolen diamonds, masked balls, purloined letters, and, of course, great bouts of swordplay, The Three Musketeers is eternally entertaining.
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The young Gascon fights
The three inseperables
and becomes their friend
(Michael.Rimmer)

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