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This is not my normal type of book to read, but I found a used a copy of it and figured its one I should know something about. And, its good. At times, over the top with annoying characters who really define the word "fops". However, as an adventure story, its fun. However, read as a satire of the French Culture, it shines. From immediately falling in love with a lady, to immediate sword duels on insult of a horse - the best books are those that can be read on multiple levels. 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) -- In English 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) 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. Belongs to SeriesBelongs to Publisher SeriesAmstelboeken (16-17) — 42 more Corticelli [Mursia] (182) Dean's Classics (10) dtv (13766) Everyman's Library (81) KOD (23) Le livre de poche (0667) Modern Library (143) Penguin Classics (L025) Pocket Books (36-37) Romances of Alexandre Dumas (Volume 10) ET Tascabili [Einaudi] (512) A tot vent (775) Tus Libros. Anaya (87) Библиотека приключений (I, 19) Is contained inDie schönsten Bücher für junge Leser — Das Gespenst von Canterville | Die schweigende Welt | Die drei Musketiere | Glückliche Tage by Reader's Digest ContainsIs retold inHas the (non-series) sequelHas the adaptationIs abridged inIs parodied inInspiredHas as a commentary on the textHas as a student's study guideHas as a teacher's guideDistinctionsNotable Lists
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HTML: 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. .No library descriptions found.
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As I read, I was impressed by how some of the actions of d'Artagnan and company are less that commendable. They are not as perfect as many cinematographic adaptations might make us think. They can be larger than life, they are loyal, brave and generous, but also too eager to kill or be killed for trivial matters of honor, they don't treat their servants that well, they can be vain, superficial and less than honest in certain dealings of the heart. In the beginning I thought that it was because of how long ago the book was written that some of the actions of the protagonists struck me as less than heroic. Later, however, I realized that this moral ambiguity was intended, and the book rose in my estimation because of that.
It has, of course, several moments that are forever engraved in the collective imagination of all who love adventure stories, scenes of enormous melodramatic intensity. ( )