Dumas Alexandre st.: The Three Musketeers Volume II
Dumas Alexandre st.: The Three Musketeers Volume II
One for all, all for one. And look for one treacherous woman behind it all!
The cardinal's ruse failed, and d'Artagnan rushed from the Channel with the missing pendants in time to correct the queen's faux pas. The heart of his beloved Constance is therefore softened by warm feelings, and soon it will be cut to the captain's coat, which the young man longs for. Oh, my! Before he puts it on, he and his musketeer friends have to go on another mission and grow up painfully in it, because the elite around Louis XIII. he's chasing the Huguenots right now. Archival Anjou during the battle for the bastion of the other faiths in La Rochelle is indeed a stylish breakfast for our foursome, but just not to underestimate the grey eminence of Richelieu! Let alone the vindictiveness of the Countess de Winter, sent to the enemy's rear as a first-rate agent. The intriguer, of whom the Count de la Fère, or Athos, knows, has already sailed to England with permission to murder for the French good. In his efforts to disarm Buckingham, he does not hesitate to abuse his own inclinations and the faith, supposedly so sacred to the Church. After all - the only thing to believe in is pure love, even if it is a lottery where a cruel premium may await the winner...
The second half of Dumas's magnificent novel depicts the fierce wars for the sake of faith and its potentates. But be careful: he who treats what he treats, he gets away with it!
They wrote about the book:
Cords clang, heads fall, but in the gaps between the life-and-death battles, we learn the essentials thanks to a witty narrator: by what contortions the age has enforced its will.
- The New York Times
Let's admit already that in the centuries-old French-English squabbles, there is no need to shame France as an innocent. He has a lion's share in them. The Buckingham case was described by Mr. Dumas in his prosaic means not only eloquently, but also with some amusement.
- Le Figaro, 1846
Although the prevailing opinion today is that books on the required reading list are boring, this is certainly not the case with The Three Musketeers. This book has all the ingredients promising an extraordinary reading experience.
- criticism.cz
Alexandre Dumas st.
Alexandre Dumas st. (1802-1870)A half-breed from the family of a general in Napoleon's Grande Armée, Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie became a phenomenon despite his incomplete education and the racial prejudices of the time, although in private fortune did not favour him even at the height of his fame. His passion for the theatre led him to leave his post as scribe to the Duke of Orleans and later, under its influence, he unsuccessfully invested in his own stage. From 1839 he devoted himself to historical texts, in which he uniquely combined dramatic plots and believable images of contemporary mentalities, at the instigation of the historian Auguste Maquet, who was his consultant and sometimes also his silent co-author. Dumas' bulldog diligence soon came to fruition: the most prolific representative of Gallic literary romanticism, remains the most widely read French writer. Although his "factory-epic" style of novel was unacceptable to snob critics as early as the mid-19th century, he is undoubtedly one of the founding fathers of genre prose and contributed significantly to making reading accessible to the masses through newspaper serialization and dramatization. His armorial works The Three Musketeers (1844; further sequels were published until 1850), The Count of Monte Cristo, Queen Margot, The Black Tulip, Lady Hamilton and countless others have inspired countless epigones and film versions. Musketeer's filmography alone numbers a couple of dozen films: the most popular is probably the slightly iconoclastic diptych with Michael York as d'Artagnan, directed by Richard Lester (1973). The latest adaptation was released in 2023 by director Martin Bourboulon.
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