The Three Musketeers

Dumas' most popular novel The Three Musketeers has long been a favourite with children and its heroes are well-known from many a film and TV adaption. 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 Kings Musketeers and is befriended by three of them Athos Portos and Aramis with whom he embarks upon a career of adventure and romance. Dumas is a brilliant story-teller: inexhaustively inventive a master of dialogue and with a fine sense of drama and of historical period he seizes the readers attention on the first page and holds it to the last. Everyman's Library Children's Classics reprints the first and the best English translation by William Barrow.