Vintage Classics: Three Musketeers, The

Vintage Classics: Three Musketeers, The
Alexandre Dumas
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 752pg
2 Jan 2014 UK
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9780099583165
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"Pure swashbuckling pleasure". ("Daily Telegraph"). The young D'Artagnan travels to Paris determined to join King Louis XIII's elite guards. Hot-headed and raring to prove himself, D'Artagnan challenges three strangers to a duel. These strangers are none other than the daring band of Musketeers - Porthos, Athos and Aramis. D'Artagnan's fearless spirit impresses them and the Musketeers take him under their wing. Soon, the wicked plots of Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter propel the four musketeers to adventures on horseback, across seas and over rooftops to defend the honour of the Queen and protect the life of the King. This is a rousing tale of thrilling swordplay and royal intrigue, brave friends and the basest treachery. See also: "The Count of Monte Cristo".
"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
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.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780099583165
Published: 2 Jan 2014
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 752
Dewey: 843.7

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