The Three Musketeers

Informationen zum Autor Alexandre Dumas was born in 1802. After a childhood of extreme poverty, he took work as a clerk, and met the renowned actor Talma, and began to write short pieces for the theatre. After twenty years of success as a playwright, Dumas turned his hand to novel-writing, and penned such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo (1844), La Reine Margot (1845) and The Black Tulip (1850). After enduring a short period of bankruptcy, Dumas began to travel extensively, still keeping up a prodigious output of journalism, short fiction and novels. He fathered an illegitimate child, also called Alexandre, who would grow up to write La Dame aux Camélias . He died in Dieppe in 1870. Klappentext Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. It is 1625 and France is under threat. D'Artagnan, a young nobleman, sets off to Paris to seek his fortune as a member of the King's Guard and befriends three musketeers - the mysterious Athos, ambitious and romantic Aramis, and bumbling Porthos. Together the friends must use all their guile and ingenuity to outwit the dastardly schemes of Cardinal Richelieu and the glamorous spy, Milady. As fresh and entertaining today as when it was first written, The Three Musketeers is a gripping adventure story of daring sword fights, romances, espionage and murder. This sensitively abridged Macmillan Collector's Library edition features an afterword by Peter Harness. An abridged edition of Alexandre Dumas's flamboyant tale of action and adventure in seventeenth-century France. Zusammenfassung An abridged edition of Alexandre Dumas's flamboyant tale of action and adventure in seventeenth-century France....

Product details

• Authors: Alexandre Dumas, Dumas Alexandre
• Assisted by: Peter Harness (Introduction), Harness Peter (Introduction)
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.09.2017
• EAN: 9781509842933
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-4293-3
• No. of pages: 686
• Dimensions: 105 mm x 158 mm x 31 mm
• Series: Collector's Library; Macmillan Collector's Library; Collector's Library; Macmillan Collector's Library; Collector's Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, France, FICTION / Action & Adventure, Historical adventure, Fiction in translation, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Historical adventure fiction, Adventure / action fiction