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The Three Musketeers

by Alexandre Dumas

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  1. Author's Preface

    5:58

  2. THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER

    39:20

  3. THE ANTECHAMBER OF M. DE TREVILLE

    27:24

  4. THE AUDIENCE

    27:59

  5. THE SHOULDER OF ATHOS, THE BALDRIC OF PORTHOS AND THE HANDKERCHIEF OF ARAMIS

    17:53

  6. THE KING'S MUSKETEERS AND THE CARDINAL'S GUARDS

    22:28

  7. HIS MAJESTY KING LOUIS XIII

    40:17

  8. THE INTERIOR OF "THE MUSKETEERS"

    22:26

  9. CONCERNING A COURT INTRIGUE

    21:10

  10. D'ARTAGNAN SHOWS HIMSELF

    16:42

  11. A MOUSETRAP IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

    21:08

  12. IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS

    37:25

  13. GEORGE VILLIERS, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM

    21:22

  14. MONSIEUR BONACIEUX

    20:23

  15. THE MAN OF MEUNG

    22:10

  16. MEN OF THE ROBE AND MEN OF THE SWORD

    15:15

  17. M. SEGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE BELL IN ORDER TO RING IT, AS HE DID BEFORE,

    21:02

  18. BONACIEUX AT HOME

    24:27

  19. LOVER AND HUSBAND

    15:24

  20. PLAN OF CAMPAIGN

    15:53

  21. THE JOURNEY

    21:56

  22. THE COUNTESS DE WINTER

    21:57

  23. THE BALLET OF LA MERLAISON

    16:14

  24. THE RENDEZVOUS

    21:20

  25. THE PAVILION

    20:45

  26. PORTHOS

    36:33

  27. ARAMIS AND HIS THESIS

    33:17

  28. THE WIFE OF ATHOS

    48:25

  29. THE RETURN

    32:11

  30. HUNTING FOR THE EQUIPMENTS

    19:52

  31. D'ARTAGNAN AND THE ENGLISHMAN

    16:11

  32. ENGLISH AND FRENCH

    16:14

  33. A PROCURATOR'S DINNER

    21:17

  34. SOUBRETTE AND MISTRESS

    22:49

  35. IN WHICH THE EQUIPMENT OF ARAMIS AND PORTHOS IS TREATED OF

    21:41

  36. A GASCON A MATCH FOR CUPID

    19:25

  37. DREAM OF VENGEANCE

    15:56

  38. MILADY'S SECRET

    16:01

  39. HOW, WITHOUT INCOMMODING HIMSELF, ATHOS PROCURED HIS EQUIPMENT

    20:52

  40. A TERRIBLE VISION

    20:38

  41. A VISION

    18:35

  42. THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE

    29:14

  43. THE ANJOU WINE

    17:58

  44. THE SIGN OF THE RED DOVECOT

    15:58

  45. THE UTILITY OF STOVEPIPES

    14:59

  46. A CONJUGAL SCENE

    12:06

  47. THE BASTION SAINT-GERVAIS

    13:13

  48. THE COUNCIL OF THE MUSKETEERS

    30:55

  49. A FAMILY AFFAIR

    30:09

  50. FATALITY

    20:59

  51. CHAT BETWEEN BROTHER AND SISTER

    19:49

  52. OFFICER

    25:22

  53. CAPTIVITY: THE FIRST DAY

    21:01

  54. CAPTIVITY: THE SECOND DAY

    22:30

  55. CAPTIVITY: THE THIRD DAY

    19:34

  56. CAPTIVITY: THE FOURTH DAY

    18:39

  57. CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY

    32:21

  58. MEANS FOR CLASSICAL TRAGEDY

    17:36

  59. ESCAPE

    16:03

  60. WHAT TOOK PLACE AT PORTSMOUTH

    23:21

  61. IN FRANCE

    13:39

  62. THE CARMELITE CONVENT AT BETHUNE

    29:51

  63. TWO VARIETIES OF DEMONS

    10:47

  64. THE DROP OF WATER

    27:31

  65. THE MAN IN THE RED CLOAK

    15:31

  66. TRIAL

    16:20

  67. EXECUTION

    11:32

  68. CONCLUSION

    20:58

  69. Epilogue

    3:35

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Young, hot-headed d'Artagnan rides to Paris in 1625 with little more than a letter of introduction and a hunger for glory, and within a day he has picked fights with the three best swordsmen in the king's Musketeers. Athos, Porthos, and Aramis soon become his brothers in arms, and together they cross swords with Cardinal Richelieu, the treacherous Milady de Winter, and half the intriguers of the French court. Dumas turned real seventeenth-century history into pure momentum, all loyalty, wit, duels, and narrow escapes, and gave the world the cry of one for all and all for one. First published in 1844, it remains one of the most purely enjoyable adventure novels ever written.

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On the first Monday of the month of April, 1625, the market town of Meung, in which the author of Romance of the Rose was born, appeared to be in as perfect a state of revolution as if the Huguenots had just made a second La Rochelle of it. Many citizens, seeing the women flying toward the High Street, leaving their children crying at the open doors, hastened to don the cuirass, and supporting their somewhat uncertain courage with a musket or a partisan, directed their steps toward the hostelry of the Jolly Miller, before which was gathered, increasing every minute, a compact group, vociferous and full of curiosity.

In those times panics were common, and few days passed without some city or other registering in its archives an event of this kind. There were nobles, who made war against each other; there was the king, who made war against the cardinal; there was Spain, which made war against the king. Then, in addition to these concealed or public, secret or open wars, there were robbers, mendicants, Huguenots, wolves, and scoundrels, who made war upon everybody. The citizens always took up arms readily against thieves, wolves or scoundrels, often against nobles or Huguenots, sometimes against the king, but never against the cardinal or Spain. It resulted, then, from this habit that on the said first Monday of April, 1625, the citizens, on hearing the clamor, and seeing neither the red-and-yellow standard nor the livery of the Duc de Richelieu, rushed toward the hostel of the Jolly Miller. When arrived there, the cause of the hubbub was apparent to all.

A young man—we can sketch his portrait at a dash. Imagine to yourself a Don Quixote of eighteen; a Don Quixote without his corselet, without his coat of mail, without his cuisses; a Don Quixote clothed in a woolen doublet, the blue color of which had faded into a nameless shade between lees of wine and a heavenly azure; face long and brown; high cheek bones, a sign of sagacity; the maxillary muscles enormously developed, an infallible sign by which a Gascon may always be detected, even without his cap—and our young man wore a cap set off with a sort of feather; the eye open and intelligent; the nose hooked, but finely chiseled. Too big for a youth, too small for a grown man, an experienced eye might have taken him for a farmer’s son upon a journey had it not been for the long sword which, dangling from a leather baldric, hit against the calves of its owner as he walked, and against the rough side of his steed when he was on horseback.

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Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas wrote at industrial scale, with a workshop behind him, and the most important member of it was Auguste Maquet, who drafted plots and researched the novels that went out under Dumas's name alone.

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First published
1844
Reading time
About 17 hours
Pages
680
Language
English
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