The Three Musketeers -- Alexandre Dumas

<p>"<em>The name of Alexandre Dumas is more than French, it is European; it is more than European, it is universal."</em> - Victor Hugo</p><p><em>" Dumas was] the most generous, large-hearted being in the world. He also was the most delightfully amusing and egotistical creature on the face of the earth. His tongue was like a windmill - once set in motion, you never knew when he would stop, especially if the theme was himself." - </em>Watts Phillips, playwright and artist.</p><p><em>"Words never failed Alexandre Dumas. In his maniacally productive writing career, he pumped out millions and millions of them: some good, some bad and all indifferent to any value other than propelling a story forward at the giddiest possible pace, if not, perhaps, with optimum fuel efficiency. Dumas's novels are shameless word-guzzlers, big and plush and almost sinfully comfortable: ideal vehicles for the long, scenic excursions into French history he regularly conducted for the newspaper readers of mid-19th-century Paris." --</em> Terrence Rafferty, New York Times.</p><p><strong>The Three Musketeers</strong> has it all. Alexandre Dumas' most famous novel and one of the most popular adventure stories of all time is filled with fast-paced adventure, suspense, romance, and comradeship - all in a historical setting. It was hugely popular; after being serialized in the French newspaper <em>Le Si cle </em>in 1844, it appeared in no less than three English translations within the next three years. The