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The three musketeers

Name: The three musketeers
Author: Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas · Public domain text

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The Three Musketeers (French: Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a French historical adventure novel written and published in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas. It is the first of the author's three d'Artagnan Romances. As with some of his other works, he wrote it in collaboration with ghostwriter Auguste Maquet. It is in the swashbuckler genre, which has heroic, chivalrous swordsmen who fight for justice.

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Authors: Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870), Auguste Maquet (1813–1888)
Language: English
Subjects: Historical fiction, France › History › Louis XIII, 1610-1643 › Fiction, Adventure and adventurers › Fiction, Swordsmen › Fiction
Length: 229,010 words · about 16 h 2 min
Sections: 70 reader sections · Table of contents
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Source: Project Gutenberg #1257

Contents (70)

Opening about 2 min
Author’S Preface about 3 min
I. THE THREE PRESENTS OF D’ARTAGNAN THE ELDER about 24 min
II. THE ANTECHAMBER OF M. DE TRÉVILLE about 16 min
III. THE AUDIENCE about 18 min
IV. THE SHOULDER OF ATHOS, THE BALDRIC OF PORTHOS AND THE HANDKERCHIEF OF ARAMIS about 12 min
V. THE KING’S MUSKETEERS AND THE CARDINAL’S GUARDS about 15 min
VI. HIS MAJESTY KING LOUIS XIII about 29 min
VII. THE INTERIOR OF THE MUSKETEERS about 14 min
VIII. CONCERNING A COURT INTRIGUE about 11 min
IX. D’ARTAGNAN SHOWS HIMSELF about 11 min
X. A MOUSETRAP IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY about 14 min
XI. IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS about 25 min
XII. GEORGE VILLIERS, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM about 13 min
XIII. MONSIEUR BONACIEUX about 12 min
XIV. THE MAN OF MEUNG about 14 min
XV. MEN OF THE ROBE AND MEN OF THE SWORD about 12 min
XVI. IN WHICH M. SÉGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE BELL about 17 min
XVII. BONACIEUX AT HOME about 19 min
XVIII. LOVER AND HUSBAND about 9 min
XIX. PLAN OF CAMPAIGN about 12 min
XX. THE JOURNEY about 17 min
XXI. THE COUNTESS DE WINTER about 14 min
XXII. THE BALLET OF LA MERLAISON about 11 min
XXIII. THE RENDEZVOUS about 15 min
XXIV. THE PAVILION about 15 min
XXV. PORTHOS about 28 min
XXVI. ARAMIS AND HIS THESIS about 24 min
XXVII. THE WIFE OF ATHOS about 28 min
XXVIII. THE RETURN about 19 min
XXIX. HUNTING FOR THE EQUIPMENTS about 12 min
XXX. D’ARTAGNAN AND THE ENGLISHMAN about 11 min
XXXI. ENGLISH AND FRENCH about 11 min
XXXII. A PROCURATOR’S DINNER about 14 min
XXXIII. SOUBRETTE AND MISTRESS about 13 min
XXXIV. IN WHICH THE EQUIPMENT OF ARAMIS AND PORTHOS IS TREATED OF about 12 min
XXXV. A GASCON A MATCH FOR CUPID about 10 min
XXXVI. DREAM OF VENGEANCE about 10 min
XXXVII. MILADY’S SECRET about 10 min
XXXVIII. HOW, WITHOUT INCOMMDING HIMSELF, ATHOS PROCURES HIS EQUIPMENT about 13 min
XXXIX. A VISION about 13 min
XL. A TERRIBLE VISION about 11 min
XLI. THE SIEGE OF LA ROCHELLE about 19 min
XLII. THE ANJOU WINE about 10 min
XLIII. THE SIGN OF THE RED DOVECOT about 12 min
XLIV. THE UTILITY OF STOVEPIPES about 12 min
XLV. A CONJUGAL SCENE about 9 min
XLVI. THE BASTION SAINT-GERVAIS about 9 min
XLVII. THE COUNCIL OF THE MUSKETEERS about 23 min
XLVIII. A FAMILY AFFAIR about 21 min
XLIX. FATALITY about 12 min
L. CHAT BETWEEN BROTHER AND SISTER about 12 min
LI. OFFICER about 16 min
LII. CAPTIVITY: THE FIRST DAY about 11 min
LIII. CAPTIVITY: THE SECOND DAY about 10 min
LIV. CAPTIVITY: THE THIRD DAY about 13 min
LV. CAPTIVITY: THE FOURTH DAY about 13 min
LVI. CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY about 23 min
LVII. MEANS FOR CLASSICAL TRAGEDY about 9 min
LVIII. ESCAPE about 11 min
LIX. WHAT TOOK PLACE AT PORTSMOUTH AUGUST 23, 1628 about 15 min
LX. IN FRANCE about 8 min
LXI. THE CARMELITE CONVENT AT BÉTHUNE about 18 min
LXII. TWO VARIETIES OF DEMONS about 6 min
LXIII. THE DROP OF WATER about 19 min
LXIV. THE MAN IN THE RED CLOAK about 8 min
LXV. TRIAL about 11 min
LXVI. EXECUTION about 6 min
LXVII. CONCLUSION about 12 min
Epilogue about 2 min

The opening of Author’S Preface

In which it is proved that, notwithstanding their names’ ending in os and is, the heroes of the story which we are about to have the honor to relate to our readers have nothing mythological about them.
A short time ago, while making researches in the Royal Library for my History of Louis XIV., I stumbled by chance upon the Memoirs of M. d’Artagnan, printed—as were most of the works of that period, in which authors could not tell the truth without the risk of a residence, more or less long, in the Bastille—at Amsterdam, by Pierre Rouge. The title attracted me; I took them home with me, with the permission of the guardian, and devoured them.
It is not my intention here to enter into an analysis of this curious work; and I shall satisfy myself with referring such of my readers as appreciate the pictures of the period to its pages.

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