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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 843.7
EAN num: 9780670037797
ISBN number: 0670037796
Label: Viking Adult
Manufacturer: Viking Adult
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 736
Printing Date: August 03, 2006
Publishing house: Viking Adult
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Studio: Viking Adult
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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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reminds me of the orlando epics mixed with don quixote. much better than those 70s movies.
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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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I loved the Pevear-Volokhonsky translation of Anna Karenina. Loved it! And so I was very, very happy to see a Pevear version of The Three Musketeers, especially one with a fun cover like this new Penguin Classics Deluxe edition has. I bought it and was ready to replace my Modern Library Classics edition --until I started reading it.
Now, I admit I don't have a French version on hand, but I am honestly confused by Pevear's choices in this translation. For example, when the keeper of seals searches the queen's papers, he refers to it as a "perquisition." When the landlord is questioned in the Bastille, Pevear's text refers to the "beagles" who run the place and the "commissary" who is in charge. I held the book at arm's length --I work in a prison, am fluent in French, and have read this book before-- why don't the words match up to those people actually use in English? My old translation refers to the "commissioner" in charge of the prison. That makes sense to me; where I work the "commissary" is the service where inmates can order packaged food or hygiene products using their personal funds.
Pevear's version is still readable, but it's readable in a strange way, like a thesaurus when you're used to a dictionary. I found his choices somewhat distracting.
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After reading many of the Russian books translated by Pevear (and Volokhonsky), I thought I would give the Musketeers a try. I was not disappointed. I enjoyed this book as much any book I've ever read. Highly recomended by (just) an avid reader
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After seeing numerous film adaptations of Dumas' immortal work, I had to read the book itself. I was not disappointed. While it is certainly lengthy dense (and, thus, not for everyone), The Three Musketeers cannot but enchant.
The story is well-known: In 17th-century France, D'Artagnan, a young Gascon of a minor family, comes to Paris to seek his fortune as a member of the king's Musketeers. In attempting to do so, he meets or runs afoul of Rochefort and Milady DeWinter - creatures of the scheming Cardinal Richilieu - and the unforgettable Musketeers: the brooding Athos, religious Aramis, and jaunty Porthos. They form an easy brotherhood and fall into foiling the Cardinal's plots while they themselves try to impress their various mistresses and scrape by financially. The book is more than just a great adventure - Dumas also adroitly discusses the class structure of the day, parodies the religious wars of the 1600s, and skewers academic scholarship. A wonderful, rich read.
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