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The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas
I bought this new translation - my younger son has read it (I read it originally years ago in another translation - but these are the ones who did the new translation of Anna Karennina which I loved). My son, John, assures me that this is THE translation of the Three Musketeers, so I've started reading it among all the other books I'm reading. I hope to be able to concentrate on it, soon.
This was a very enjoyable read. I suppose it being a new translation I understand things I didn't before since it was so "edited". Some things make much more sense. The prologue on Dumas and his characters was also very interesting. D'Artagnan, the principal character, is practical, down-to-earth where his companions -Athos, Porthos and Aramis are very casual. Aramis is, after all, intending to be a priest someday so is only a musketeer temporarily. Porthos is a blustering braggart, but a good friend. Athos is a disillusioned lord who is a musketeer only because he can remain anonymous. D'Artagnan falls foul of all 3 separately on his first day in Paris. When they all show up together for their duels, he commands their respect by apologizing if he is unable to fight the others because one of them kills him. They are interrupted by the Cardinal's guards and in the fight form a bond of friendship. The musketeers adopt D'Artagnan as one of them altho he cannot be a musketeer until he has served a year or two in some other company or performed some valiant act making him eligible to join. (I always did wonder why it took so long for him to become a musketeer.)
Anyway, the book is great fun and an interesting read. I want to read more and have downloaded "Twenty Years After" which I read in high school in the 70s and would like to get another look at.
This was a very enjoyable read. I suppose it being a new translation I understand things I didn't before since it was so "edited". Some things make much more sense. The prologue on Dumas and his characters was also very interesting. D'Artagnan, the principal character, is practical, down-to-earth where his companions -Athos, Porthos and Aramis are very casual. Aramis is, after all, intending to be a priest someday so is only a musketeer temporarily. Porthos is a blustering braggart, but a good friend. Athos is a disillusioned lord who is a musketeer only because he can remain anonymous. D'Artagnan falls foul of all 3 separately on his first day in Paris. When they all show up together for their duels, he commands their respect by apologizing if he is unable to fight the others because one of them kills him. They are interrupted by the Cardinal's guards and in the fight form a bond of friendship. The musketeers adopt D'Artagnan as one of them altho he cannot be a musketeer until he has served a year or two in some other company or performed some valiant act making him eligible to join. (I always did wonder why it took so long for him to become a musketeer.)
Anyway, the book is great fun and an interesting read. I want to read more and have downloaded "Twenty Years After" which I read in high school in the 70s and would like to get another look at.