The Three Musketeers (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Dumas, Alexandre; Pevear, Richard; Gauld, Tom

• ISBN13: 9780143105008
• ISBN10: 0143105000
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-08-28
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

A major new translation of one of the most enduring works of literature, from the award- winning, bestselling co-translator of Anna Karenina—with a spectacular, specially illustrated cover The Three Musketeersis the most famous of Alexandre Dumas’s historical novels and one of the most popular adventure stories ever written. Now in a bracing new translation, this swashbuckling epic chronicles the adventures of d’Artagnan, a brash young man from the countryside who journeys to Paris in 1625 hoping to become a musketeer and guard to King Louis XIII. Before long he finds treachery and court intrigue—and also three boon companions: the daring swordsmen Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. Together they strive heroically to defend the honor of their queen against the powerful Cardinal Richelieu and the seductive spy Milady.

Author Biography

Alexandre Dumas (1802-û1870) was a prolific author and adventurer who took part in the revolution of 1830.
Richard Pevear, with his wife, Larissa Volokhonsky, has translated Tolstoy-'s Anna Karenina as well as the work of Bulgakov, Dostoyevsky, Gogol, and Chekhov. He teaches at the American University of Paris.
Tom Gauld is the illustrator and author of Guardians of the Kingdom. He founded Cabanon Press with his wife, artist Simone Lia.