The Three Musketeers

by Dumas, Alexandre; Pevear, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780670037797
• ISBN10: 0670037796
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-08-03
• Publisher: Viking Adult

Summary

"It is 1625, and Louis XIII sits uncertainly on the throne of an agitated France, when d'Artagnan arrives in Paris fresh from the countryside. Determined to become one of the musketeers who serve as bodyguard to the King, the brash young man skirmishes with and then befriends the daring swordsmen Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. Before long the four companions are enmeshed in court politics and intrigue, and skirting plenty of close calls, as they strive to defend the honor of their Queen against the powerful Cardinal Richelieu and the treacherous, seductive Milady."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Alexandre Dumas (1802-û1870) was a prolific author and adventurer who took part in the Revolution of 1830. His most popular works are The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, and The Man in the Iron Mask.
Richard Pevear, with his wife, Larissa Volokhonsky, has translated Tolstoy-'s Anna Karenina as well as the work of Bulgakov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, and Chekhov. He has also translated from the French, Italian, and Greek. He teaches at the American University of Paris.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
A Note on the Translation	xxi
Preface	1	(4)
I. The Three Presents of M. d'Artagnan Sr.	5	(15)
II. M. de Treville's Antechamber	20	(11)
III. The Audience	31	(11)
IV. Athos's Shoulder, Porthos's Baldric, and Aramis's Handkerchief	42	(8)
V. The King's Musketeers and the Cardinal's Guards	50	(11)
VI. His Majesty King Louis the Thirteenth	61	(19)
VII. The Musketeers at Home	80	(9)
VIII. A Court Intrigue	89	(8)
IX. D'Artagnan Shows Himself	97	(8)
X. A Seventeenth-Century Mousetrap	105	(10)
XI. The Plot Thickens	115	(18)
XII. George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham	133	(8)
XIII. Monsieur Bonacieux	141	(9)
XIV. The Man from Meung	150	(11)
XV. Men of the Robe and Men of the Sword	161	(8)
XVI. In Which the Keeper of the Seals Seguier Searches More Than Once for the Bell in Order to Ring It the Way He Used To	169	(11)
XVII. The Bonacieux Household	180	(13)
XVIII. The Lover and the Husband	193	(7)
XIX. The Campaign Plan	200	(9)
XX. The Journey	209	(2)
XXI. The Countess de Winter	211	(20)
XXII. The Ballet of the Merlaison	231	(6)
XXIII. The Rendezvous	237	(11)
XXIV. The Pavilion	248	(11)
XXV. Porthos	259	(18)
XXVI. The Thesis of Aramis	277	(17)
XXVII. The Wife of Athos	294	(19)
XXVIII. The Return	313	(14)
XXIX. The Chase After Outfits	327	(9)
XXX. Milady	336	(7)
XXXI. Englishmen and Frenchmen	343	(8)
XXXII. A Procureur's Dinner	351	(10)
XXXIII. Soubrette and Mistress	361	(10)
XXXIV. Which Treats of the Outfitting of Aramis and Porthos	371	(8)
XXXV. At Night All Cats Are Gray	379	(8)
XXXVI. The Dream of Vengeance	387	(7)
XXXVII. Milady's Secret	394	(7)
XXXVIII. How, Without Stirring, Athos Found His Outfit	401	(10)
XXXIX. A Vision	411	(8)
XL. The Cardinal	419	(8)
XLI. The Siege of La Rochelle	427	(13)
XLII. The Wine of Anjou	440	(8)
XLIII. The Inn of the Red Dovecote	448	(8)
XLIV. Of the Usefulness of Stovepipes	456	(8)
XLV. A Conjugal Scene	464	(6)
XLVI. The Saint-Gervais Bastion	470	(7)
XLVII. The Council of the Musketeers	477	(17)
XLVIII. A Family Matter	494	(14)
XLIX Fatality	508	(8)
L. A Brother Chats with His Sister	516	(8)
LI. Officer	524	(10)
LII. First Day of Captivity	534	(7)
LIII. Second Day of Captivity	541	(8)
LIV. Third Day of Captivity	549	(9)
LV. Fourth Day of Captivity	558	(8)
LVI. Fifth Day of Captivity	566	(14)
LVII A Means from Classical Tragedy	580	(7)
LVIII. Escape	587	(8)
LIX. What Happened in Portsmouth on the Twenty-third of August 1628	595	(11)
LX. In France	606	(6)
LXI. The Convent of the Carmelites in Bethune	612	(13)
LXII. Two Sorts of Demons	625	(5)
LXIII. A Drop of Water	630	(14)
LXIV. The Man in the Red Cloak	644	(6)
LXV. The Judgment	650	(8)
LXVI. The Execution	658	(5)
LXVII. Conclusion	663	(9)
Epilogue	672	(3)
Notes	675