About This Book

All for one and one for all! That was the motto of the noble Athos, powerful Porthos, and gentlemanly Aramis. Those three were the closest of friends, the three inseparables — until the Gascon D'Artagnan joined them, and the three became four . . . traveling on a secret mission for beautiful Anne of Austria, the beleaguered French queen.

About Alexandre Dumas

(1802-1870) A dramatist, an immensely prolific writer, and a wild spender, the French writer, Alexandre Dumas, Père, (the father, so-called to distinguish him from his writer-son, who bore the same name) was author of many dozens of successful — and some not so successful — romantic plays, farces, and dramas that were produced in Paris theaters throughout most of his life, beginning in the early 1820s.

Despite his lifelong industry, (over 1200 volumes of writing!) his earning were consumed by debt and dissipation. He lived estranged from his wife and son, and was plagued by creditors through most of his life.

Dumas, Père, is chiefly remembered now for his stories of derring-do concerning the adventures of Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and the peerless D'Artagnan: "The Three Musketeers," for "The Man in the Iron Mask," and for the long and complex book of betrayal and revenge, The Count of Monte Christo.