In old times, all brave warriors wanted to become musketeers. This novel’s background is in Europe, where the concept of musketeer (a soldier with a gun) was very popular nearly 250 years ago. This is a thrilling story of three friends who work as musketeers. It entertains and educates teenagers.
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.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Alexandre Dumas, born July 24, 1802, at Villiers-Cotterets, France, was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. He began writing at an early age and saw his first success in a play he wrote entitled ‘Henri III et sa Cour’ (1829). A prolific author, Dumas was also an adventurer and took part in the Revolution of 1830. Many of his novels, including ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’, ‘The Three Musketeers’, ‘The Man in the Iron Mask’, and ‘The Vicomte de Bragelonne’ were serialized. Dumas also wrote plays and magazine articles, and was a prolific correspondent. Dumas made and lost several fortunes, and died penniless on December 5, 1870.