With an Introduction & Notes by Keith Wren University of Kent at Canterbury One of the most celebrated & popular historical romances ever written The Three Musketeers tells the story of the early adventures of the young Gascon gentleman D' Artagnan & his three friends from the regiment of the King's Musketeers
- Athos Porthos & Aramis Under the watchful eye of their patron M de Treville the four defend the honour of the regiment against the guards of Cardinal Richelieu & the honour of the queen against the machinations of the Cardinal himself as the power struggles of seventeenth century France are vividly played out in the background But their most dangerous encounter is with the Cardinal's spy Milady one of literature's most memorable female villains & Alexandre Dumas employs all his fast-paced narrative skills to bring this enthralling novel to a breathtakingly gripping & dramatic conclusion Our edition uses the William Barrow translation first published by Bruce & Wylde (London 1846)
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Alexandre Dumas' thrilling tale of bravery brotherhood & the triumph of good over evil The Three Musketeers is translated with an introduction by Richard Pevear in Penguin Classics' All for one one for all
- that is our motto!' Young d' Artagnan arrives in Paris to join King's Louis XIII's elite guards but almost immediately finds he is duelling with some of the very men he has come to swear allegiance to
- Porthos Athos & Aramis inseparable friends the Three Musketeers Soon part of their close band d' Artagnan's loyalty to his new allies puts him in the deadly path of Cardinal Richlieu's machinations & when the young hero falls in love with the beautiful but inaccessible Constance he finds himself in a world of murder conspiracy & lies with only the Musketeers to depend on A stirring nineteenth-century tale of friendship & adventure The Three Musketeers continues to be one of the most influential & popular pieces of French literature In this acclaimed new translation Richard Pevear's introduction investigates the controversy of Dumas' literary collaborators & how important serialisation was to the book's success This edition also

Includes:: notes on the text Alexandre Dumas (1802-70) was a pioneer of the Romantic theatre in France but in 1839 he turned his attention to writing the novels for which he is best known today pften using collaborators such as Auguste Maquet to suggest plots or historical background His most famous works include The Three Musketeers (1844) The Count of Monte Cristo (1844-5) & The Man in the Iron Mask (1847) If you enjoyed The Three Musketeers you might like Dumas' The Man in the Iron Mask also available in Penguin Classics



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The young D' Artagnan & the legendary musketeers Athos Porthos & Aramis are 'the inseparables'
- ready to sacrifice everything
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What began as another lovely evening in Paris for best buddies Porthos Athos Aramis & D&artagnan has become a night to remember Count Xavier & his sinister sidekick Orsini have kidnapped France&s most famous heroes & now they are plotting to take over the crown It&s up to Porthos to save the Musketeers in this riveting run n& jump romp appropriate for adventurers of all ages Classic platform action in groundbreaking cartoon 3D More than 200 areas & much more Explore dungeons castles forests & much more ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The Three Musketeers return in this new swashbuckling CGI animated all animal feature film based on the timeless story by Alexandre Dumas The story follows the adventures of the brave musketeers Porthos Aramis & Athos & of D& Artagnan who dreams of becoming a Musketeer himself ...

In the overcrowded world & cramped space colonies of the late twenty-first century tedium can be endured through the use of the drug Can-D which enables the user to inhabit a shared illusory world But when industrialist Palmer Eldritch returns from an interstellar trip he brings with him a new drug Chew-Z which is far more potent than Can-D But could the permanent state of drugged illusion it induces be part of something much more sinister? ...

Left on the doorstep of an orphanage run by nuns three newborn knuckleheads grow up to be finger-poking nyuk-nyuking janitors named Larry (Sean Hayes) Curly (Will Sasso) & Moe (Chris Diamantopoulos) When they learn that financial problems will soon force the only home they&ve ever known to close the trio sets out to raise 830000 in one month Out in the world for the very first time the three innocent bumblers become embroiled in a murder plot & find stardom on a TV reality show ...

Get more nyuks for your bucks with The Three Stooges Vol 2 Graphic Novel collection! America&s favorite funnymen are back with the first comic book series that captures the likeness of Moe Larry & Curly! These all new adventures present The Three Stooges unique brand of wit & slapstick to a new generation of fans Celebrate April Fools Day the Stooges way with this 144 page graphic novel collecting The Three Stooges Merry Stoogemas The Three Stooges April Fools Day Special The Three Stooges TV Time The Three Stooges Halloween Stoogetacular & packed with extra fun parody ads interviews classic comics & even more Stooge goodness ...

Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy Sophocles' The Three Theban Plays are among the most enduring & timeless dramas ever written This Penguin Classics edition is translated by Robert Fagles with introductions & notes by Bernard Knox Collected here are Antigone Oedipus the King & Oedipus at Colonus in a translation by Robert Fagles which retains all of Sophocles' lucidity & power the cut & thrust of his dialogue his ironic edge the surge & majesty of his choruses & above all the agonies & triumphs of his characters Oedipus in exile searching for his identity desperately trying to avoid his fate seeking the truth of his origins & achieving immortality; his daughter Antigone defending her integrity & ideals to the death
- these heroic tragic figures have captivated theatregoers & readers since the fifth century BC It is Sophocles' characterisation of Oedipus that would in the nineteenth century inspire Sigmund Freud to a revolutionary conception of the human mind & the tragedies in this volume continue to move & inspire us to this day Sophocles (496-405 BC) was born at Colonus just outside Athens His long life spanned the rise & decline of the Athenian Empire; he was a friend of Pericles & though not an active politician he held several public offices both military & civil The leader of a literary circle & friend of Herodotus Sophocles wrote over a hundred plays drawing on a wide & varied range of themes & winning the City Dionysia eighteen times; though only seven of his tragedies have survived among them Antigone Oedipus Rex Ajax & Oedipus at Colonus If you enjoyed The Three Theban Plays you might like Aeschylus' The Oresteia also available in Penguin Classics'I know of no better English version' Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones Oxford University' The most impressive verse translations of Sophocles that have been made' Stephen Spender
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Long long ago a very special star appeared in the night sky It shone more brightly than all the other stars Three wise men called Melchior Caspar & Balthasar gazed at the star in wonder They had never seen anything like it before In this beautifully illustrated book for young children the three Kings decide to journey west following the star to a very special destination Loek Koopmans' retelling of one part of the Christmas story is full of life & character as well as mystery & wonder ...