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The three musketeers by alexandre dumas pdf Continue David Stuart Davies describes how his novels remain a permanent monument to his brilliance as a storyteller The greatest set of literary heroes are these three daredevil musketeers, Athos, Porthos and Aramis and their companion in arms d'Artagnan, the creation of the French writer Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870). In the introduction to the novel The Three Musketeers (1844), the author explains that his inspiration for the book was Mémoires de Monsieur d'Artagnan (1700), the historical fantasy of Gatien de Courtily de Sandras, in which d'Artagnan tells his first visit to Paris and the office of M. de Tréville, captain of the Musketeers, where in the hallway he meets and eventually befriends the three most dangerous musketeers of the era : Athos, Porthos and Aramis. This piece of information flourished in Dumas's creative mind in a famous saga that has delighted generations of readers around the world. In fact, the novel, set in France from 1625 to 1688, is a living romantic romp, telling about the turbulent and exciting adventures of the characters, who are embroiled in the affairs of the state and the royal court. However, Dumas also often deals with various injustices, abuses and absurdities of the old regime that existed before the French Revolution (1789-1799), which took place less than fifty years before the publication of the novel. This gives the narrative an additional contemporary political aspect at a time when the debate in France between republicans and monarchists was still fierce. One of the novel's highlights is the rich and varied characterization of the four characters, reinforcing drama, comedy and narrative pathos: d'Artangnan is young, handsome, stupid and brave; Athos, who becomes the figure of d'Artagnan's father, has never recovered from a failed marriage and seeks solace in wine; Aramis hesitates between his religious vocation and his passion for women and scheming; Porthos, a dandy who likes fashionable clothes and wants to make a fortune for himself, is the least cerebral, but compensates for his strength and cruelty in battle. The quartet often fall out with each other, but when the chips were down, they unify into a fine combat machine, living up to their cry: All for one and one for all!. The novel gains a layer of authenticity by inserting real historical figures into the plot, including King Louis XIII and his chief adviser Cardinal Richelieu, whom Dumas portrays as a sinister, dangerous and duplied figure who plots against Queen Anne in reluctance to reject his progress. In fact, the Queen is having a secret affair with a successful Englishman: George Villiers, The Prince of Buckingham, who carries with him the dangers of both the French and British thrones. Richelieu is not the only villain security and stability of France. There is also the fictional Milady De Winter, a beautiful, scheming and treacherous temptress who is a spy for the cardinal and, as it turns out, wife Athos! To unravel this particular mystery ing, I recommend you to read the book. The three Musketeers were never out of print and were translated into most languages of the world. In addition, there were many plays, movies, TV series, cartoon adventures and even a musical based on novels. In particular, cinema was the most wonderful, using the title characters in different ways. Among the many features most notable are the lively silent version of Douglas Fairbanks in 1921 and the first English-language film with Walter Abel as d'Artangnan in 1935. In 1973, Richard Lester directed two features Three Musketeers and Four Musketeers with Michael Yorke as d'Artangnan, Charlton Heston as Richelieu and Raquel Welch as Milady. This project, which emphasized the comic aspects of history, was first attached in 1960 as a project for The Beatles. Recently, a swashuffeured quartet appeared in a BBC series that transcended the boundaries of the original novel and took on the atmosphere of a Western film with musketeers behaving like a group of vigilantes riding to the rescue, guns blazing. After the novel's immediate success, Dumas continued the saga of d'Artangnan in two consecutive tomes Twenty years after (1845) and Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (1847). The latter title, an extensive tom of 268 chapters, is usually divided into three, four or even five individual books. In the three-tone English editions, the sections are titled Vicomte de Bragelonne, Louise de la Vallière and The Man in the Iron Mask. Other notable novels from Alexandre Dumas' pen, full of high adventure and thrilling action, include the Corsioc Brothers (1844) and the Earl of Monte Cristo (1844-45). Dumas' last novel, Knight Sainte-Hermine, unfinished after his death, was completed by a scholar in France in 2005, becoming a bestseller. It was published in English in 2008 as The Last Cavalier. The novel is a swashuling story set in the rise of the Napoleonic Empire. The key scene depicts the Battle of Trafalgar and the death of British Admiral Horatio Nelson. The extravagant nature of Dumas' story was reflected in the nature of man himself. Although he was married, in the tradition of the French upper social class, Dumas had many extra-married affairs - allegedly as many as forty - and was known to have had at least four illegitimate children. One illicit affair was with Adah Isaacs Menken, an American actress then less than half his age and at the height of his career. English playwright Watts Phillips, who knew Dumas in his he described him as the most generous, generous being in the world. He was also the most playful and selfish creature on the face of the earth. His tongue was like a windmill – when he started, he never knew when he would stop, especially if the subject was alone. Regardless of what dumas he had as a man, his novels remain a permanent monument to his brilliance as a storyteller - a brilliance that still wieldes its magic to this day. Project Gutenberg 63,451 free ebooks 146 by Alexandre Dumas For other uses, see Three Musketeers (disambiguation). See also: Three Musketeers in the film. Novel by Alexandre Dumas Les trois mousquetaires D'Artagnan, Athos, Aramis, and PorthosImage Maurice LeloirAuthorAlexandre DumasOriginal titleLes Trois MousquetairesCountryFranceLanguageFrenchGenreHistorical novel, Adventure novel, Swashbucklerancy date March- July 1844 (series)Pagesc. 700 (depending on the edition)After the years 190-1913) is an adventure novel by the French writer Alexandre Dumas from 1844. It is in the genre of swashbuckler, which has heroic, chivalrous swords men who fight for justice. Set between 1625 and 1628, it tells the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan (a character based on Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan) after he leaves home to go to Paris, hoping to join the Musketeers of the Guard. Although d'Artagnan is not able to immediately join this elite corps, he befriends the three most dangerous musketeers of that age – Athos, Porthos and Aramis, three inseparable – and engages in state and court affairs. The three musketeers are primarily historical and adventure novels. However, Dumas often depicts the various injustices, abuses and absurdities of Ancien Régime, giving the novel additional political significance at the time of its publication, at a time when the debate in France between republicans and monarchists was still fierce. History was first serialized from March to July 1844, during the July monarchy, four years before the French Revolution in 1848 brutally established the Second Republic. The story of d'Artagnan continues twenty years after and Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten years later. Origin Musketeer guard c. 1660. Dumas presents his novel as one of a series of recovered manuscripts, turning the beginnings of his romance into a small drama. In the foreman he talks about inspiration with a scene in the Mémoires de Monsieur d'Artagnan (1700), a historical novel by Gatien de Courtily de Sandras, printed by Pierre Rouge in Amsterdam, which Dumas discovered while researching the history of Louis XIV. [1] [2] According to Dumas, d'Artagnan talks about his first visit to M. de Tréville, captain of the Musketeers, and as in the hallway, met three young Béarnese with the names Athos, Porthos and Aramis, he made such an impression on him that he continued the investigation. True – the rest is fiction: he finally found the names of three Musketeers in a manuscript entitled Mémoire de M. le comte de la Fère, etc. Dumas requested permission to reprint the manuscript; permission has been granted: Now, this is the first part of this valuable manuscript that we offer our readers, restoring it to the title that belongs to it, and making a commitment that if (of which we have no doubt) this first part should get the success it deserves, we will publish the second immediately. In the meantime, because the godfathers are the other fathers, as it were, we beg the reader to put himself on our account, and not to comte de la Fère, pleasure or ennui can experience. It is understandable, let's move on to our history. The three Musketeers wrote in collaboration with Auguste Maquet, who also collaborated with Dumas on his sequels (Twenty Years After and The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later), as well as the Earl of Monte Cristo. Maquet suggests plot outlines after historical research; Dumas expanded the story, removing some characters, including new ones, and saturating the story with his unique style. The three musketeers were first published in serial form in Le Siècle newspaper from March to July 1844. Plot Summary In 1625, France d'Artagnan (poor young nobleman) leaves his family in Gascony and goes to Paris to join the Musketeers Guards.