The Three Musketeers
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The Three Musketeers
| Author | Alexandre Dumas |
|---|---|
| Published | 1844 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | d’Artagnan arrives in Paris to join the King’s Musketeers and falls in with Athos, Porthos and Aramis, in a plot that runs through Richelieu’s court, an English duke and one of the most durable villains in popular fiction. The founding text of the swashbuckler, and the motto attached to it has outlived almost everything else in the book. |
The Three Musketeers
Where I heard about it
- Dissident Teacher — on A Library to Build Great Americans, a 468-title curriculum from the Substack writer (December 2025), under Fiction in the Ages 13–99+ band.
About this edition
Dumas serialised it in Le Siècle in 1844, the same year as The Count of Monte Cristo, with the historian Auguste Maquet as collaborator — the episodic rhythm of the newspaper instalments is still visible.
Connections
- Alexandre Dumas — the author.
- The Count of Monte Cristo — his other 1844 serial, already in the corpus.
- Literature
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.