The Three Musketeers

An abridged edition of Alexandre Dumas's flamboyant tale of action and adventure in seventeenth-century France. It is 1625 and France is under threat. D'Artagnan, a young nobleman, sets off to Paris to seek his fortune as a member of the King's Guard and befriends three musketeers - the mysterious Athos, ambitious and romantic Aramis, and bumbling Porthos. Together the friends must use all their guile and ingenuity to outwit the dastardly schemes of Cardinal Richelieu and the glamorous spy, Milady. As fresh and entertaining today as when it was first written, Alexandre Dumas's classic is a gripping adventure story of daring sword fights, romances, espionage, and murder. This sensitively abridged Macmillan Collector's Library edition of The Three Musketeers features an afterword by Peter Harness. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.