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Some people love to read history books.
Others would much rather curl up with a good novel. Best known as the author of The Three Musketeers , Dumas was master of the serial novel. Readers throughout Europe eagerly awaited each new installment of his stories. Crowds would wait on the docks of ports in America for ships bringing the latest of his writings. After traces the lives of Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and d'Artagnan two decades after their adventures with the wily Cardinal Richelieu.