The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas Audiobook

Written by Alexandre Dumas
Read by John Lee
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

The d’Artagnan Romances, Book 1
Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc.
Release date: September 18, 2008
Duration: 23:33:06

Mixing a bit of seventeenth-century French history with a great deal of invention, Alexandre Dumas tells the tale of young D’Artagnan and his musketeer comrades, Porthos, Athos, and Aramis. Together they fight to foil the schemes of the brilliant, dangerous Cardinal Richelieu, who pretends to support the king while plotting to advance his own power.

Bursting with swirling swordplay, swooning romance, and unforgettable figures - including the seductively beautiful but deadly femme fatale, Milady, and D’Artagnan’s equally beautiful love, Madame Bonacieux –

The Three Musketeers continues, after a century and a half of continuous publication, to define the genre of swashbuckling romance and historical adventure.

Of course you’ve heard of THE THREE MUSKETEERS, but did you know that it’s really funny, as well as replete with romance and adventure? John Lee does, and his narration plays up all three attributes to great effect. For those who need a reminder, Dumas’s classic adventure presents the escapades of three of King Louis’s musketeers, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, plus D’Artagnan (a musketeer in training) as they foil a few of Cardinal Richelieu’s many devious plots. Amid much swordplay, they actually utter the famous line: “All for one and one for all.” Lee struggles a bit with accents and characterizations early in the production. His hesitations disappear after a few chapters, however, and he gives fine voice to the rest of the madcap tale. A.C.S. (c) AudioFile 2009