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~ Alexandre Dumas père (Author), Richard Pevear (Translator) "On the first Monday of the month of April 1625, the village of Meung, where the author of the Romance of the Rose was born,..." (more)
Key Phrases: poor mercer, forty pistoles, young musketeer, Mme Bonacieux, Lord de Winter, Mme Coquenard (more...)
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“Brisk, agile . . . a heady mix of intrigue, action, and laughing-in-the-face-of-death badinage [all superbly rendered in this translation].”
—The New York Times Book Review --This text refers to the Paperback edition.


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A major new translation of one of the most enduring works of literature from the award- winning, bestselling translator of Anna Karenina

First published in 1844, The Three Musketeers is the most famous of Alexandre Dumas’s historical novels and one of the most popular adventure novels ever written. Dumas’s swashbuckling epic chronicles the adventures of d’Artagnan, a brash young man from the countryside who journeys to Paris in 1625 hoping to become a musketeer and guard to King Louis XIII. Before long, he finds treachery and court intrigue—and also three boon companions, the daring swordsmen Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. Together the four strive heroically to defend the honor of their queen against the powerful Cardinal Richelieu and the seductive spy Milady.

Richard Pevear, part of the husband/wife team responsible for award-winning translations of classic Russian literature, provides a flavorful and faithful rendition that conveys all of the wit, romance, and rollicking pace of the original French. Pevear also includes an edifying introduction to Dumas, his world, and his take on history, as well as explanatory notes, making this the edition par excellence for a new generation of readers.

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  • Hardcover: 736 pages
  • Publisher: Viking Adult (August 3, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0670037796
  • ISBN-13: 978-0670037797
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 2.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #328,558 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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On the first Monday of the month of April 1625, the village of Meung, where the author of the Romance of the Rose was born, seemed to be in as total an upheaval as if the Huguenots had come to make a second La Rochelle. Read the first page
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poor mercer, forty pistoles, young musketeer, hundred pistoles, blank permit, red duke, two musketeers, thousand pistoles, diamond pendants
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Mme Bonacieux, Lord de Winter, Mme Coquenard, Mme de Chevreuse, Master Coquenard, Master Bonacieux, Red Dovecote, Charlotte Backson, Hôtel de Ville, King Louis, Mme de Lannoy, Their Majesties, Don Quixote, George Villiers, Marie Michon, Palais Cardinal, Fort de La Pointe, Lady Clarick, Milady de Winter, Cardinal Richelieu, King Charles, Mme de Bois-Tracy, New World, Pomme de Pin
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5.0 out of 5 stars Huzzah!, September 7, 2006
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An "endless adventure" breathlessly moving from one scene to the next: sword-fighting, court espionage, sex scandals, poisonings, assassinations, undying love and so on.

'Les Trois Mousquetaires', first published in 1844, was soon translated into three English versions by 1846. One of these, by William Barrow, is still in print and fairly faithful to the original, available in the Oxford World's Classics 1999 edition. However all of the explicit and many of the implicit references to sexuality had been removed to conform to 19th century English standards of morality, thus making the scenes between d'Aragnan and Milady, for example, confusing and strange. The most recent and new standard English translation is by award-winning translator Richard Pevear (2006). Pevear says in his translation notes that most of the modern translations available today are "textbook examples of bad translation practices" which "give their readers an extremely distorted notion of Dumas's writing." Thankfully we have high quality translations like this one now available.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Pevear's Translation is the Best!!, July 22, 2007
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Richard Pevear's translation of the Three Musketeers is without a doubt the best I have ever seen. His translation makes the story flow much easier and makes the language much more intelligible to modern readers. My hope is that he continues to translate Dumas' other works where the Musketeers also make an appearance. I would recommend this book to those who have already read previous translations and those who are new to the works of Alexandre Dumas.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Classic Translation for a Classic Adventure, June 11, 2008
This review is from: The Three Musketeers (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Paperback)
The Pevear/Volokhonsky team has been responsible for a minor Russian revolution (hoo-ha) in literature. Their brisk, highly accurate, wonderfully readable translations of Crime and Punishment, The Bros. Karamazov, Chekhov, and War and Peace make these tomes seem exciting and new , especially since most have made do with translations from the early 20th or even 19th centuries!

Now, Richard Pevear takes a crack at one of the most sheerly enjoyable books ever written, The Three Musketeers. I'd tried to read a version of this book some years back. It was pretty good, but it seemed to be one of those adventure stories trapped in another time, where what was once considered bold and exciting had slowly become covered in sepia and dust. But this translation makes everything seem bright, bold, and (because this is a French novel) wonderfully risque.

Political backstabbing, sex-as-revenge, noblemen hiding under assumed names, poisoned wine, battlefield lunches...in fact, I was surprised how much romance and history are intertwined in this novel. The main villain, Milady, (Quasi-SPOILER!)


managers to seduce an English Puritan who is guarding her through a combination of pious prayer and that sort of faux-naivete that involves low-cut dresses and heaving bosoms. Porthos is after a woman for her money, and D'artagnan falls in love with his landlord's wife. Hilarity typically ensues, though there is the occasional kidnapping and the old "hide 'em in a convent".

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I highly recommend this book to anyone who has a bit of a swashbuckler in them, or who likes their thrillers to have some actual literary merit (which this book does in spades).

I only ask that Mr. Pevear PLEASE turn his pen to the sequel to the Three Musketeers, the bluntly titled "Twenty Years Later". Who knows what we are missing?
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