The first two of The Three Musketeers series. Set in the 17th century, The Three Musketeers recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to become a guard of the musketeers. Twenty Years After continues the saga with d'Artangnan who has for twenty years remained a lieutenant in the Musketeers. Read to discover what happens to bring all of the Musketeers back together again. The order of Alexandre Dumas books The Three Musketeers 1625-1628 Twenty Years After 1648-1649 Vicomte de Bragelonne 1660 Ten Years Later 1660-1661 Louise de la Valliere 1661 The Man in the Iron Mask 1661-1673
Author
This note regards Alexandre Dumas, père, the father of Alexandre Dumas, fils (son). For the son, see Alexandre Dumas fils. Alexandre Dumas, père (French for "father", akin to Senior in English), born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, The Man in the Iron Mask, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne were serialized. Dumas also wrote plays and magazine articles, and was a prolific correspondent. Dumas was of Haitian descent and mixed-race. His father, General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, was born in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) to Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie, a French nobleman, and Marie-Cessette Dumas, a black slave. At age 14 Thomas-Alexandre was taken by his father to France, where he was educated in a military academy and entered the military for what became an illustrious career. Dumas' father's aristocratic rank helped young Alexandre Dumas acquire work with Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orléans, then as a writer, finding early success. He became one of the leading authors of the French Romantic Movement, in Paris. Excerpted from Wikipedia.
