The Three Musketeers: Introduction by Allan Massie (Everyman's Library Classics Series)

Alexandre Dumas€s most famous tale€" and possibly the most famous historical novel of all time€" in a handsome hardcover volume.

This swashbuckling epic of chivalry, honor, and derring-do, set in France during the 1620s, is richly populated with romantic heroes, unattainable heroines, kings, queens, cavaliers, and criminals in a whirl of adventure, espionage, conspiracy, murder, vengeance, love, scandal, and suspense. Dumas transforms minor historical figures into larger- than-life characters: the Comte d€Artagnan, an impetuous young man in pursuit of glory; the beguilingly evil seductress €œMilady€; the powerful and devious Cardinal Richelieu; the weak King Louis XIII and his unhappy queen€"and, of course, the three musketeers themselves, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, whose motto €œall for one, one for all€ has come to epitomize devoted friendship. With a plot that delivers stolen diamonds, masked balls, purloined letters, and, of course, great bouts of swordplay, The Three Musketeers is eternally entertaining.