THE THREE MUSKETEERS


Author:

Alexandre Dumas

First edition:

Les Trois mousquetaires, Le Siècle, 1844. Volume form in 1844 by Baudry.

Main illustrators:

Beaucé Leloir Philippoteaux Rouil

In short:

This is the story of four comrades-in-arms, musketers at the service of Louis XIII: Athos, who was unsuccessfully married with the evil female protagonist, Milady; Porthos, a kind-hearted gigantic man; Aramis, mystic mixture of love and courage; and Dartagnan, our hero of the story.
In this historic novel we also find Cardinal Richelieu, Queen Anne and the English Duke of Buckingham.
ALL FOR ONE AND ONE FOR ALL!!

Selection of edition:

The Three musketeers, illustrated by Tom Kidd, afterword by Peter Glassman and translated by Lowell Bair, New York: William Morrow & Co.,c1998.
The Three Musketeers, illustrated by James Daugherty, afterword by Clifton Fadiman, New York : Macmillan, c1962.
Les Trois Mousquetaires, illustrated by Jean-Adolphe Beaucé, Marescq, 1852.
Les Trois Mousquetaires, illustrated by Félix Philippoteaux, éd. Legrand.
Les Trois Mousquetaires, illustrated by Maurice Leloir, Michel Lévy, 1894.
Les Trois Mousquetaires, illustrated by Thierry Jallet, Bias, 1987.
Les Trois Mousquetaires, illustrated by Christophe Rouil, Hachette, 1990.

More about it:

This is one of Dumas' best-known novels. It is the first in a trilogy which consists of three novels: The Three Musketeers, Vingt Ans Après (Twenty Years After), and Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix Ans Plus Tard (Ten Years Later). This third novel is often split up into three pieces when published in English: The Vicomte of Bragelonne, Louise de la Vallière, and The Man in the Iron Mask.

Adaptations:

"Les Trois Mousquetaires", film directed by Henri Diamant-Berger, 1921, France.
"The Three Musketeers", by Fred Niblo with Douglas Fairbanks, 1921, USA.
"The Three Musketeers", by André Hunebelle, 1953.
"The Three Musketeers", by B. Borderie, 1961.
"The Three Musketeers", by R. Lester, 1974.
"The Three Musketeers", by S. Herek, 1993.

On the Internet:

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