TY - BOOK N2 - Dumas' most popular novel, The Three Musketeers, has long been a favorite with children, and its heroes are well-known from many a film and TV adaptation. Set in France in the seventeenth century, it follows the fortunes of d'Artagnan, a poor Gascon gentleman, who arrives in Paris to join the King's Musketeers and is befriended by three of them, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, with whom he embarks on a career of adventure and romance. Dumas is a brilliant story-teller: inexhaustibly inventive, a master of dialogue, and with a free sense of drama and of historical period, he seizes the reader's attention on the first page and holds it to the last. Everyman's Library reprints the first, and the best, English translation, by William Barrow. AB - Dumas' most popular novel, The Three Musketeers, has long been a favorite with children, and its heroes are well-known from many a film and TV adaptation. Set in France in the seventeenth century, it follows the fortunes of d'Artagnan, a poor Gascon gentleman, who arrives in Paris to join the King's Musketeers and is befriended by three of them, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, with whom he embarks on a career of adventure and romance. Dumas is a brilliant story-teller: inexhaustibly inventive, a master of dialogue, and with a free sense of drama and of historical period, he seizes the reader's attention on the first page and holds it to the last. Everyman's Library reprints the first, and the best, English translation, by William Barrow. T1 - The three musketeers / DA - c1999. CY - New York : AU - Dumas, Alexandre, AU - Barrow, William. CN - PQ2228 CN - PQ2228 PB - Alfred A. Knpof, PP - New York : LA - eng PY - c1999. ID - 339234 KW - Swordsmen SN - 9780375406577 SN - 0375406573 SN - 9789603420262 SN - 9603420263 TI - The three musketeers / LK - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random053/2001272397.html LK - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random042/2001272397.html LK - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random044/2001272397.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random053/2001272397.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random042/2001272397.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random044/2001272397.html ER -