The Three Musketeers

Jan 15, 2026 4:33 PM

Author:Alexandre Dumas,Will Hobson

The young Gascon d'Artagnan and the legendary musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis are ready to sacrifice everything for love, glory and the common good. The wicked machinations of Cardinal Richelieu and his accomplice, the magnetic Milady de Winter, propel the devoted friends across seas and battlefields from masked balls to a remote convent, in order to defend the honour of the Queen and the life of Constance Bonacieux, d'Artagnan's true love.

Dashing, knockabout, romantic, violent, chilling and tragic, this buoyant new translation of The Three Musketeers brings Dumas' masterpiece to joyful life.

Reviews

Rollicking

—— Independent

Delicious

—— Guardian

Dumas is a master of ripping yarns full of fearless heroes, poisonous ladies and swashbuckling adventurers

—— Guardian

The Napoleon of storytellers

—— Washington Post

This funny novels explores the flaws of a perfect neighbourhood with a bizarre killer on the loose

—— Psychologies

A compelling novel that examines life, love and loss with a cynical but insightful world view. Original and brilliant

—— Sunday Mirror

Whitehead's delicious language and sarcastic, clever voice fit this teenager who's slowly constructing himself

—— New York Times

Perfectly portrays the constant and mortifying awkwardness of teenage existence

—— Aesthetica

Intimate and autobiographical story...the novel can't help but hold your attention

—— Ned Beauman , Dazed & Confused

Take a dollop of Alfred Hitchcock, a dollop of Patricia Highsmith, throw in some Great Gatsby flourishes, and the result is Rindell's debut, a pitch-black comedy about a police stenographer accused of murder in 1920s Manhattan . . . deliciously addictive

—— Kirkus Reviews

A genuinely delightful, witty page turner, full of surprises

—— Diva

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