The Three Musketeers
D'Artagnan rides from Gascony to Paris in 1625 with a letter of introduction to the captain of the King's Musketeers, picks fights with three of them on his first day, and ends up bound to Athos, Porthos, and Aramis by the kind of loyalty Dumas built his career writing. The four take on Cardinal Richelieu, recover a queen's diamond studs from Buckingham, and tangle with Milady de Winter, the branded spy who supplies the book's coldest violence. Dumas wrote it for newspaper serialization in 1844, a year before Monte Cristo, and the same patient plotting and operatic stakes are already in place.
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A young Gascon swordsman joins three legendary Musketeers in 1625 Paris and tangles with Cardinal Richelieu, a queen's secrets, and the deadliest villainess in classic adventure fiction.
Yes. The Three Musketeers was published in 1844 and is in the public domain. Free editions are available legally through Project Gutenberg.
Alexandre Dumas wrote three D'Artagnan novels: The Three Musketeers (1844), Twenty Years After (1845), and The Vicomte of Bragelonne (serialized 1847-1850). The Vicomte of Bragelonne is often split into three volumes including The Man in the Iron Mask.
The Three Musketeers was written by Alexandre Dumas, published in 1844 by Benediction Books.
The Three Musketeers is 552 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Three Musketeers takes most readers 8 to 12 hours to finish.
The Three Musketeers is a standalone novel by Alexandre Dumas, not part of a series.
The Three Musketeers is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
