4.1
The Three Musketeers
Unfailingly exciting and a complete joy to read, this new translation brings Dumas's original to buoyant life.
Four men--the young Gascon D'Artagnan and the legendary musketeers Athos, Porthos, and Aramis--are ready to sacrifice everything, from their purses to their lives, for the common good. Propelled by the wicked machinations of Cardinal Richelieu and the magnetic Milady de Winter, the devoted friends adventure across seas and over rooftops, from masked balls to a medieval prison, to defend the honor of the Queen and the life of the King. Dashing, knockabout, romantic, violent, tongue-in-cheek, chilling, and tragic, The Three Musketeers is a wonderful piece of storytelling. Will Hobson's translation gives the dialogue the same charge that it has in the French, to make it as funny, vivacious, and immediate.
FictionAction & AdventureClassicsHistoricalMedievalLiterary
RELEASED2014
PUBLISHERPenguin Random House
LENGTH730
LANGUAGEEN
A French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne were serialized. He also wrote plays and magazine articles and was a prolific correspondent. (From Wikipedia.)
4.1
The Three Musketeers
Unfailingly exciting and a complete joy to read, this new translation brings Dumas's original to buoyant life.
Four men--the young Gascon D'Artagnan and the legendary musketeers Athos, Porthos, and Aramis--are ready to sacrifice everything, from their purses to their lives, for the common good. Propelled by the wicked machinations of Cardinal Richelieu and the magnetic Milady de Winter, the devoted friends adventure across seas and over rooftops, from masked balls to a medieval prison, to defend the honor of the Queen and the life of the King. Dashing, knockabout, romantic, violent, tongue-in-cheek, chilling, and tragic, The Three Musketeers is a wonderful piece of storytelling. Will Hobson's translation gives the dialogue the same charge that it has in the French, to make it as funny, vivacious, and immediate.
FictionAction & AdventureClassicsHistoricalMedievalLiteraryFriendship
RELEASED2014
PUBLISHERPenguin Random House
LENGTH730
LANGUAGEEN
A French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne were serialized. He also wrote plays and magazine articles and was a prolific correspondent. (From Wikipedia.)
