The Three Musketeers

Alexander Dumas classic novel, The Three Musketeers, depicts the adventures D'Artagnan when he meets a group from the French King's Musketeers. The book was originally published in serial form in French and later translated into the English language.

D'Artagnan leaves his home in France to fulfill his dream of becoming a Musketeer. He carries with him a letter from his father to give to the Captain of the Company of Musketeers that his father just happens to know. He is attacked, and the letter stolen but he goes on without it to meet up with the Captain. Without his father's letter D'Artagnan isn't received well.

Eventually meeting three of the musketeers he helps them defeat the Cardinal's guards and wins their friendship and gets in the good graces of the Captain and becomes a soldier in the Royal Guard in the company of M. Des Essart.

"Bursting with swirling swordplay, swooning romance, and unforgettable figures such as the seductively beautiful but deadly femme fatale, Milady, and D'Artagnan's equally beautiful love, Madame Bonacieux, The Three Musketeers continues, after a century and a half of continuous publication, to define the genre of swashbuckling romance and historical adventure." *mdash; Powell Books

• • Mahalo's Guide to Alexander Dumas
• Wikipedia: Alexandre Dumas, père
• Books and Writers: Alexandre Dumas (sr.) Biography
• Fan Site: Alexandre Dumas père Biography
• The Galaxy: "A Reminiscence of Alexander Dumas" (1871)
• The Living age: "Autobiography of Alexandre Dumas" (A Review) (1852)

• Note: The majority of links in this section come from IMDb, which has pop-ups.

• 1903: The Three Musketeers

• 1921: The Three Musketeers

• 1933: The Three Musketeers

• 1939: The Three Musketeers

• 1948: The Three Musketeers

• 1951: The Two Mouseketeers

• 1952: At Sword's Point

• 1964: Any Time At All (The Beatles animated rendition)

• 1973: The Three Musketeers

• 1993: The Three Musketeers