The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas

Philippe Auzou Editions, Dec 6, 2016 - Fiction - 40 pages

Enter a world of friendship, honor, and duty to your King in 17th-century France with this beautifully illustrated adaptation of the classic French novel by Alexandre Dumas.

This cloak-and-dagger tale follows the adventures of the three musketeers and their new friend D'Artagnan. As they seek to protect the King against the attempts to overthrow him by the Cardinal and his associates, they will learn that loyalty and friendship are the most important values.

This classic has been perfectly adapted for children aged eight and above. The original and modern illustrations breathe new life into this epic tale.

Bénédicte Rivière is an actor, voice-over artist, and children's book writer based in France.

Camille André is an illustrator and animated movie graphic artist. She has worked for Disney. She lives in Paris.

About the author

After an idle youth, Alexandre Dumas went to Paris and spent some years writing. A volume of short stories and some farces were his only productions until 1927, when his play Henri III (1829) became a success and made him famous. It was as a storyteller rather than a playwright, however, that Dumas gained enduring success. Perhaps the most broadly popular of French romantic novelists, Dumas published some 1,200 volumes during his lifetime. These were not all written by him, however, but were the works of a body of collaborators known as "Dumas & Co." Some of his best works were plagiarized. For example, The Three Musketeers (1844) was taken from the Memoirs of Artagnan by an eighteenth-century writer, and The Count of Monte Cristo (1845) from Penchet's A Diamond and a Vengeance. At the end of his life, drained of money and sapped by his work, Dumas left Paris and went to live at his son's villa, where he remained until his death.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Three Musketeers
• Author: Alexandre Dumas
• Illustrated by: Camille André
• Contributor: Bénédicte Rivière
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Philippe Auzou Editions, 2016
• ISBN: 2733843265, 9782733843260
• Length: 40 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Historical / General; Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure / General; Juvenile Fiction / Classics; Juvenile Fiction / Historical / Europe; Juvenile Fiction / Historical / General