"First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin ... 2006"--Title page verso Includes bibliographical references (pages 675-704).
Contents:
The three presents of M. d'Artagnan Sr. -- M. de Tréville's antechamber -- The audience -- Athos's shoulder, Porthos's baldric, and Aramis's handkerchief -- The king's musketeers and the cardinal's guards -- His majesty King Louis the thirteenth -- The musketeers at home -- A court intrigue -- D'Artagnan shows himself -- A seventeenth-century mousetrap -- The plot thickens -- George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham -- Monsieur Bonacieux -- The man from Meung -- Men of the robe and men of the sword -- In which the keeper of the seals Séguier searches more than once for the bell in order to ring it the way he used to -- The Bonacieux household -- The lover and the husband -- The campaign plan -- The journey -- The Countess de Winter -- The ballet of the Merlaison -- The rendezvous -- The pavilion -- Porthos -- The thesis of Aramis -- The wife of Athos -- The return -- The chase after outfits -- Milady -- Englishmen and Frenchmen -- A procureur's dinner -- Soubrette and mistress -- Which treats of the outfitting of Aramis and Porthos -- At night all cats are gray -- The dream of vengeance -- Milady's secret -- How, without stirring, Athos found his outfit -- A vision -- The cardinal -- The siege of La Rochelle -- The wine of Anjou -- The inn of the Red Dovecote -- Of the usefulness of stovepipes -- A conjugal scene -- The Saint-Gervais bastion -- The council of the musketeers -- A family matter -- Fatality -- A brother chats with his sister -- Officer -- First day of captivity -- Second day of captivity -- Third day of captivity -- Fourth day of captivity -- Fifth day of captivity -- A means from classical tragedy -- Escape -- What happened in Portsmouth on the twenty-third of August 1628 -- In France -- The convent of the Carmelites in Béthune -- Two sorts of demons -- A drop of water -- The man on the red cloak -- The judgment -- The execution -- Conclusion.
Summary:
This 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 they strive heroically to defend the honor of their queen against the powerful Cardinal Richelieu and the seductive spy Milady.
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