The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - Book 2, Part 5

The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - Book 2, Part 5

Title: The Three Musketeers

Overview: The d'Artagnan Romances are a set of three novels by Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870), telling the story of the 17th-century musketeer d'Artagnan. Dumas based the character and attributes of d'Artagnan on the captain of musketeers Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan (c. 1611–1673) and the portrayal was particularly indebted to d'Artagnan's semi-fictionalized memoirs as written 27 years after the hero's death by Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras (published 1700). The Three Musketeers (French: Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a French historical adventure novel written in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas. It is in the swashbuckler genre, which has heroic, chivalrous swordsmen who fight for justice. Set between 1625 and 1628, it recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan (a character based on Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan) after he leaves home to travel to Paris, hoping to join the Musketeers of the Guard. Although d'Artagnan is not able to join this elite corps immediately, he is befriended by three of the most formidable musketeers of the age – Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, "the three musketeers" or "the three inseparables" – and becomes involved in affairs of state and at court. The Three Musketeers is primarily a historical and adventure novel. However, Dumas frequently portrays various injustices, abuses, and absurdities of the Ancien Régime, giving the novel an additional political significance at the time of its publication, a time when the debate in France between republicans and monarchists was still fierce. The story was first serialized from March to July 1844, during the July Monarchy, four years before the French Revolution of 1848 violently established the Second Republic. The story of d'Artagnan is continued in Twenty Years After and The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later.

Published: 1844

List: 100 Classic Book Collections, Readers' Choice Collections, The d'Artagnan Romances Series, d'Artagnan #5

Author: Alexandre Dumas

Translator: William Robson

Genre: Classic Literature & Fiction, Historical Novel, Adventure Novel, Contemporary Literature & Fiction, Traveler & Explorer Biographies, Swashbuckler

Episode: The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - Book 2, Part 5

Part: 5 of 7

Length Part: 3:38:09

Book: 2

Length Book: 26:34:51

Episodes: 40 - 49 of 68

Successor: Twenty Years After

Narrator: John Van Stan

Language: English

Rated: Guidance Suggested

Edition: Unabridged Audiobook

Keywords: Alexandre Dumas, Biography, Autobiography, True Crime, Criminology, Middle Ages, History, War, Military, Christianity, Early Modern, Historical, Fiction, Borgias, Cenci, Massacres, Deep South, Mary Stuart, Karl-Ludwig Sand, Urbain Grandier, Nisida, Desrues, La Constantin, Joan of Naples, Iron Mask, Martin Guerre, Ali Pacha, Countess de Saint-Geran, Murat, Marquise de Brinvilliers, Vaninka, Marquise de Ganges, The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo

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