The Three Musketeers

Author(s): Alexandre Dumas

Classics

Dumas' most popular novel, The Three Musketeers, has long been a favourite with children, and its heroes are well-known from many a film and TV adaption. Set in France in the seventeenth century, it follows the fortunes of D'Artagnan, a poor Gascon gentleman, who arrives in Paris to join the Kings Musketeers and is befriended by three of them, Athos, Portos and Aramis, with whom he embarks upon a career of adventure and romance. Dumas is a brilliant story-teller- inexhaustively inventive, a master of dialogue and with a fine sense of drama and of historical period, he seizes the readers attention on the first page and holds it to the last. Everyman's Library Children's Classics reprints the first, and the best, English translation, by William Barrow.


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'God's teeth!' Unfailingly exciting and a complete joy to read, this new translation of The Three Musketeers is published to coincide with the lavish BBC adaptation to be aired this month.

"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. Former Contributing Editor at Granta Books, Will Hobson is a critic and translator from the French and German, whose translations include Viramma: A Pariah's Life, Viramma (Verso); The Battle, Patrick Rambaud (Picador); Sans Moi, Marie Desplechin (Granta); Benares, Barlen Pyamootoo (Canongate); and The Dead Man in the Bunker, Martin Pollack (Faber) and Marilyn's Last Sessions by Michel Schneider (Canongate). His translation on Being Arab by Samir Kassir (Verso) won the Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Award 2007. He writes for the Independent on Sunday, the Observer and Granta magazine, and translated Greenpeace's presentation to the Pope before the Kyoto Summit into Latin.

General Fields

  • : 9780099583165
  • : Random House UK
  • : VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
  • : 0.548
  • : February 2014
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 38mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Alexandre Dumas
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : [Fic]
  • : oc2014017336