The Three Musketeers
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4.8 • 11 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a
novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It recounts the adventures of a young man named
d'Artagnan after he leaves home to become a musketeer. D'Artagnan is not one of
the musketeers of the title; those are his friends Athos, Porthos, and
Aramis—inseparable friends who live by the motto, "One for all, and all for
one".
The story of d'Artagnan is continued in Twenty Years After and The
Vicomte de Bragelonne. Those three novels by Dumas are together known as the
D'Artagnan Romances.
The Three Musketeers was first published in serial form in the
magazine Le Siècle between March and July 1844.
— Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The picaresque adventures of the young d'Artagnan, who strives to become a musketeer in service of the king, unfold in a visually vibrant adaptation of Dumas's novel. It's no easy task to condense such a sprawling story into a picture book, and readers may have trouble keeping up with the swerves of the plot. French artist Andr uses airy, watercolorlike effects to create dramatic visuals suggestive of stills from an animated action film. It's an ambitious retelling, but most readers will probably benefit from outside research or conversations with adults to better understand the context and stakes of the story. Ages 8 11.
Customer Reviews
entertaining and insightful
This is possibly one of the best pieces of fiction ever written. I couldn't put it down, and spent an entire Sunday reading it. I never expected it to be what it was from what I'd read in the description. But then, the plot is so complex, and there are so many subplots that you wonder how anyone can do it justice. A "nonstop adventure" enthusiastically moving from one scene to the next: sword-fighting, poisonings, court espionage, sex scandals, assassinations, undying love and so on.