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Authors: Alexandre Dumas, Allan Massie
ISBN-13: 9780307594990, ISBN-10: 0307594998
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date Published: February 15, 2011
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) was one of the literary lights of France during the Romantic Revolution, his complete works eventually filling over three hundred volumes. George Bernard Shaw described him as "one of the best storytellersa ]that ever lived." The Man in the Iron Mask and The Three Musketeers are available from Brilliance Audio.

JOHN LEE is a well-known herbalist, who practices in North Carolina and lectures widely.

Book Synopsis

This swashbuckling tale, beloved around the world, follows the fortunes of D'Artagnan, a country boy who travels to Paris to join the Musketeers, save his queen from scandal, and outwit the devious Cardinal Richelieu.

Toronto Globe & Mail

How thorough Mr. Raby has been in his recapitulation of Dumas' plot...This is a piece of master carpentry, with special skill in the dovetailing

	Translator's Introduction	9
Part 1
1	The Three Gifts of Monsieur d'Artagnan the Elder	27
2	Monsieur de Treville's Ante-Room	42
3	The Audience	53
4	Athos' Shoulder, Porthos' Shoulder-Belt, and Aramis' Handkerchief	65
5	The King's Musketeers and the Cardinal's Guards	73
6	His Majesty King Louis XIII	84
7	The Musketeers at Home	105
8	A Court Intrigue	115
9	D'Artagnan takes Command	124
10	A Seventeenth-Century Mouse-Trap	133
11	The Plot Thickens	144
12	George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham	162
13	Monsieur Bonacieux	171
14	The Man of Meung	180
15	Soldiers and Magistrates	191
16	In which Seguier, the Keeper of the Seals, looks again for the Chapel Bell which in his youth he rang so furiously	201
17	The Bonacieux at Home	213
18	The Lover and the Husband	228
19	The Plan of Campaign	236
20	The Journey	245
21	My Lady de Winter	259
22	The Merlaison Ballet	269
23	The Tryst	277
24	The Summer-House	285
25	Porthos' Mistress	299
26	Aramis' Thesis	318
27	Athos' Wife	335
28	The Return	355
29	In Search of Equipment	369
30	Milady	378
31	English and French	386
32	Lunch at the Lawyer's	394
33	Mistress and Maid	403
34	How Aramis and Porthos Found Their Equipment	413
35	All Cats are Grey at Night	422
36	Plans for Revenge	430
37	Milady's Secret	437
Part 2
1	How Athos Found His Equipment Without Bestirring Himself	447
2	A Vision	456
3	The Cardinal	464
4	The Siege of La Rochelle	473
5	The Anjou Wine	484
6	The Red Dovecote Inn	492
7	The Advantage of Stove Pipes	500
8	A Conjugal Scene	508
9	The Bastion of St Gervais	514
10	A Council of War	521
11	A Family Affair	539
12	Disaster	553
13	Conversation Between Brother and Sister	561
14	Officer!	569
15	First Day of Captivity	579
16	Second Day of Captivity	586
17	Third Day of Captivity	593
18	Fourth Day of Captivity	601
19	Fifth Day of Captivity	609
20	Histrionics in the Grand Manner	623
21	Escape	629
22	What Happened at Portsmouth on 25 August 1628	638
23	In France	648
24	The Carmelite Convent at Bethune	654
25	The Female and the Male	668
26	A Drop of Water	674
27	The Man in the Red Cloak	690
28	The Trial	696
29	The Execution	704
30	A Messenger from the Cardinal	709
	Epilogue	719

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