The Three Musketeers: Tie-In Edition

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"I do not say there is no character as well-drawn in Shakespeare as DArtagnan. I do say there is none that I love so wholly."Robert Louis Stevenson. Alexandre Dumas (18021870) lived a life as romantic as that depicted in his famous novels. He was born in Villers-Cotterts France. His early education was scanty but his beautiful handwriting secured him a position in Paris in 1822 with the duOrlans where he read voraciously and began to write. His first play Henri III et sa cour (1829) scored a resounding success for its author and the romantic movement. His lavish spending and flamboyant habits led to the construction of his fabulous Chteau de Monte-Cristo and in 1851 he fled to Belgium to escape creditors. Dumass overall literary output reached more than 277 volumes but his brilliant historical novels made him the most universally read of all French novelists. With collaborators mainly Auguste Maquet Dumas wrote such works as THE THREE MUSKETEERS (18431844); its sequels Twenty Years After (1845) and the great mystery The Man in the Iron Mask (18451850); and The Count of Monte Cristo (1844). His work ignored historical accuracy psychology and analysis but its thrilling adventure and exuberant inventiveness continued to delight readers and Dumas remains one of the prodigies of nineteenth-century French literature.