The Three Musketeers (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) FROM OUR EDITORS
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Mixing a bit of seventeenth-century French history with a great deal of
invention, Alexandre Dumas tells the tale of young
D’Artagnan and his musketeer comrades, Porthos, Athos and Aramis.
Together they fight to foil the schemes of the brilliant, dangerous
Cardinal Richelieu, who pretends to support the king while plotting to
advance his own power. Bursting with swirling swordplay, swooning
romance, and unforgettable figures such as the seductively beautiful but
deadly femme fatale, Milady, and D’Artagnan’s equally
beautiful love, Madame Bonacieux, The Three Musketeers continues,
after a century and a half of continuous publication, to define the genre
of swashbuckling romance and historical adventure.
Barbara T. Cooper is Professor of French at the University of New
Hampshire. She is a member of the editorial boards of
Nineteenth-Century French Studies and the Cahiers Alexandre
Dumas and specializes in nineteenth-century French drama and works by
Dumas.
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