Sunday, 20 March 2016
Monday, 14 March 2016
Monday, 7 March 2016
Sunday, 6 March 2016
Tuesday, 1 March 2016
The three musketeers
 |
|
"D'Artagnan, Athos, Aramis and
Porthos"
Image by Maurice Leloir, 1894
|
The
Three Musketeers is a historical novel by Alexandre Dumas.
Set
in 1625, it recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan (based on
Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan) after he leaves home to travel to Paris,
to join the Musketeers of the Guard. Although D'Artagnan is not able to join
this elite corps immediately, he befriends the three most formidable musketeers
of the age: Athos, Porthos and Aramis and gets involved in affairs of the state
and court.
The
Three Musketeers
is primarily a historical and adventure novel. However, Dumas also frequently
works into the plot various injustices, abuses and absurdities.
 |
|
Three Musketeers, Issue No. 1,
Classic Comics, published 1941
|
Alexandre Dumas
 |
|
Dumas in 1855
|
Alexandre Dumas was a French writer. His works have
been translated into nearly 100 languages, and he is one of the most widely
read French authors. Many of his historical novels of high adventure were
originally published as serials, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The
Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de
Bragelonne: Ten Years Later. His novels have been adapted since the early
twentieth century for nearly 200 films. Dumas' last novel, The Knight of
Sainte-Hermine, unfinished at his death, was completed by a scholar and
published in 2005, becoming a bestseller. It was published in English in 2008
as The Last Cavalier.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)