The Three Musketeers
Dumas created the template for the adventure novel — swashbuckling, friendship, loyalty, and betrayal at breakneck pace.
“All for one, one for all!”
Why It Matters
Dumas created the template for the adventure novel — swashbuckling, friendship, loyalty, and betrayal at breakneck pace. D'Artagnan and the Musketeers are among the most recognizable characters in world literature. The "all for one, one for all" ethos it popularized became the default code for fictional male friendship.
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Personal reviewNow THATS a swashbuckling tale. Just a ton of fun, very light, fun characters and adventures, funny parts. On guard!
Notable Quotes
“Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the thinker's faculties.”
“There are services so great that they can only be paid by ingratitude.”