num_pages: 759
description: The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics  series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics:New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholarsBiographies of the authorsChronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural eventsFootnotes and endnotesSelective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the workComments by other famous authorsStudy questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectationsBibliographies for further readingIndices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. Mixing a bit of seventeenth-century French history with a great deal of invention, Alexandre Dumas tells the tale of young D’Artagnan and his musketeer comrades, Porthos, Athos and Aramis. Together they fight to foil the schemes of the brilliant, dangerous Cardinal Richelieu, who pretends to support the king while plotting to advance his own power. Bursting with swirling swordplay, swooning romance, and unforgettable figures such as the seductively beautiful but deadly femme fatale, Milady, and D’Artagnan’s equally beautiful love, Madame Bonacieux, The Three Musketeers continues, after a century and a half of continuous publication, to define the genre of swashbuckling romance and historical adventure. Barbara T. Cooper is Professor of French at the University of New Hampshire. She is a member of the editorial boards of Nineteenth-Century French Studies and the Cahiers Alexandre Dumas and specializes in nineteenth-century French drama and works by Dumas.
language: English
title: The Three Musketeers
titlecomplete: The Three Musketeers
characters: Athos, Anne of Austria, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, Monsieur de Treville, D'Artagnan, King Louis XIII, Cardinal Richelieu, Milady de Winter, Constance Bonacieux, Aramis, Porthos
genres: Classics, Adventure, France, Historical, Novels, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction, Literature, French Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 316550
places: La Rochelle, France, Paris
series: Les Trois Mousquetaires, The d’Artagnan Romances, Lawrence Ellsworth's Musketeer Cycle Translations
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Premi Protagonista Jove
category: Categoria 16-17 anys
publisher: Barnes & Noble Classics