Book description
Young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris to join the King's elite guards, but
almost immediately finds he is duelling with some of the very men he has
come to swear allegiance to - Porthos, Athos and Aramis, inseparable
friends: the Three Musketeers. Soon part of their close band,
D'Artagnan's loyalty to his new allies puts him in the deadly path of
Cardinal Richlieu's machinations. And when the young hero falls in love
with the beautiful but inaccessible Constance, he finds himself in a
world of murder, conspiracy and lies, with only the Musketeers to depend
on. A stirring nineteenth-century tale of friendship and adventure,
The Three Musketeers
continues to be one of the most influential and popular pieces of French
literature.
Alexander Dumas was born in 1802 at Villes-Cotterets.
He received very little education but when he entered the household of
the future king, Louis-Philippe, he began to read veraciously and then
to write. In 1839 he began writing novels dealing with the wars of
religion and the Revolution, but he is most remembered for his
historical novels, The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.
Richard Pevear, with his wife, Larissa Volokhonsky, has translated
Tolstoy's Anna Karenina as well as the work of Bulgakov,
Dostoevsky, Gogol and Chekhov. He has also translated from the French,
Italian, and Greek. Originally from Boston, he now lives in Paris,
where he teaches at the American University of Paris.
