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Alexandre Dumas, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie; (24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas, père, was a French writer. His works have been translated into nearly 100 languages, and he is one of the most widely read French authors. Many of his historical novels of high adventure were originally published as serials, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later. His novels have been adapted since the early twentieth century for nearly 200 films. Dumas' last novel, The Knight of Sainte-Hermine, unfinished at his death, was completed by a scholar and published in 2005, becoming a bestseller. It was published in English in 2008 as The Last Cavalier
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John Webb

Service is fast and reliable.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 24, 2022

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I had read other books by Alexandre Dumas which I really enjoyed. I was happy to find a novel this old on Amazon

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 4, 2021

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My 9 year old loves to read. Bought this as present for her. Books hold up as expected.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 20, 2021

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Good quality, arrived on time

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kenny

Beautiful end to a wonderful saga

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 3, 2018

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This book perfectly wraps up the friendship that was born in the three musketeers and also gives us a sad but heartfelt goodbye to each of the characters we came to love, poor Raoul!

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Michael D. Donovan

The Corsican Brothers does not fit in.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 11, 2003

This is what I originally put in my review:
If the order of Dumas' D'Artagnan novels is: The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Ten Years Later, Louise de la Valliere, and The Man in the Iron Mask, as one reader has put in his review, then where does The Corsican Brothers fit in? I only filled in 1 star because that was a required field. I haven't actually read the book.
I have since learned that _The Corsican Brothers_ is not related to the Musketeers/D'Artagnan series. It not only set during Dumas' own lifetime, he made himself a minor character in it.
I would have deleted this whole review, except that I saw that 1 in 6 people found it helpful. I hope the one person who liked it sees this correction. My appologies to the other five.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on July 12, 2015

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Very good book i read it before and still love it

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chezrea@interaccess.com

An extremely interesting book

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on September 6, 1999

I just finished listening to the unabridged, Books on Tape version, of this book. I also just recently finished the Three Muskateers so I thought I was getting the entire picture. It was not until I went on the internet and discovered that there are three or four books in between, depending on what language you are reading.
However, I thought the book extremely good. It seemed strange the introduction of some characters as old friends (Raoul, Athos' son for example) but now I know better. I did find it interesting how Dumas allowed the characters to mature. Nowhere in this book do you have the "all for one, one for all" story line. In fact, if I am not mistaken, I do not believe that all four of the muskateers are in the same place at the same time throughout this entire book. Aramis deceives Porthos into helping him with his plot to unseat Louis XIV, hardly something that would seem likely in the first novel.
There are some questions that are unanswered to me, most notably what happens to Philippe? Does he die? Does he live on throughout what was Louis XIV's long reign? Also, what was Aramis' motivation for unseating the first Louis anyway? Did it strike anyone else that Fouquet (forgive my spelling, I listened to the book on tape so I don't know if I am spelling the names correctly) is able to spirit the first Louis back out of the Bastille rather easily? Didn't Aramis put the fear of death in the governor of the Bastille's mind?
I don't want to be too critical, after all it's a novel, not a history. As such it was quite good. I thought it would have been better had the intrique with Philippe been more developed. The book seemed to drag a bit after he was put back in the Bastille. The last few chapters were very long obituaries for Athos and D'Artegnon. I am going to locate the other books in between and try to read them as well. I am also going to get some of the recent movie versions to see how Hollywood butchered the books.

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Misfit

Forget the movie, read the book!!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 25, 2008

Oh wow, what a great end to an incredible ride, the story of the Musketeers. I haven't been so engrossed in a series of books since I picked up Diana Gabaldon's Outlander. Athos, Raoul, Porthos, Aramis and of course D'Artagnan are going to be in my thoughts and dreams for some time, I hate to let them go.

If you are expecting the story as told by Hollywood, forget it. While I haven't seen the latest version with Leonardo DiCaprio (forgive me if I spell it wrong), I looked at the reader reviews and was quite surprised at how different the book is from Hollywood's version. I also recall a movie done in the late 70's/80's that is nothing like the book as well. I would pick it apart point by point, but that would include spoilers. The Man in the Iron Mask is actually the last third of a huge novel by Dumas originally titled The Vicomte de Bragelonne. Because of the size of the book, English publishers have divided into three books, The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Louise de la Valliere, and The Man in the Iron Mask.

Suffice it to say that TMITIM is the final chapter of our heroic Musketeers, as well as Raoul, the son of Athos. While we all know the story of Louis XIV's twin and the plot to substitute him, that is a minor part of the whole story, as the action then becomes centered on the aftermath of that plot and Louis' revenge. It has been a grand, glorious ride reading this series, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Louise de la Valliere and The Man In the Iron Mask. And do have your box of tissue handy for the last 20-30 pages. You'll need it.

One side note, some people are purchasing this as a stand-alone book, which it is not. You could probably get away with that, but you'll spend so much time looking back at the footnotes trying to figure who is who I doubt you will enjoy the story as much. Also, this version didn't have the list of characters that the VDB and LDLV did. Go for broke and read the whole thing, it's well worth it.

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Livvy

Dreadful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 10, 2017

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Not sure if this is the correct forum but here goes. I wrote a review earlier stating ;no probs' I meant the delivery. I had not read the book then. The book translation is appalling. I am allowed the Americanism of 'no probs' but not someone translating an historical masterpiece like this It is full of rubbish like 'C'mon' and 'That feels great' and these are the least ludicrous. I kept going because of the story, trying to ignore the more absurd words and phrases. Eventually I could take no more when Porthos, being told he could choose his own method of execution replied 'Thanks loads'. That did it. I have just ordered a Kindle version of a grown-up edition. Dumas must be turning in his grave.

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Helen

Very fine finale to very fine series by Dumas

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 26, 2015

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So much of this book is simply wonderful, as with the earlier parts, and I think Dumas's imagination in using the Man in the Iron Mask theme so cleverly is simply amazing. I read the whole series from start to finish when I was about 13. Before that, at age 9 I had found the first book at home on a bookshelf and I read it then as I'd seen a movie version notlong before, and thenI read it several times more.

The whole series is a simply marathon read but I have always loved marathon reads so that a writer, so long as,has the skills, can develop a theme to the full.

I only remove one star now because in my current (only second) reread because after all these years my view of d'Artagnan has changed. I really cannot any longer see him as the dynamic hero. Even thouigh my favourite in the books was always Aramis, I did as a child think d'Artagnan pretty wonderful. Now I am totally devoted to Aramis and his fascinating scheming and how he keeps steps ahead of d'Artagnan most of the time. Aramis is an ambitious schemer, a clever, dynamic and devious free-thinker with ideas that are partly for the benefit of whoever but also for the benefit in certain ways of France. During all these books, France has opposing political forces (in the stories as well as in real life). D'Artagnan is the good and mostly noble soldier (Dumas's musketeers are never perfect human beings, they have the warts too...) but like any soldier he is required to be blindly loyal to the King. D'Artagnan isn't always "blindly" loyal, but at times his loyalty is trying when it's only too clear that Aramis's scheme is far more sensible than whatever d'Artagnan thinks the King needs to know. So I become irritated often with d'Artagnan in these later books because of his loyalty and continually enthralled by Aramis's enterprises.

It's this rivalry that underpins the later 3 books, and in the end it leads to a finale that in some ways is simply supberb but in just a few ways is - in my view - unduly biased towards d'Artagnan. But of course, the Gascon who remains a musketeer all his life does seem to be the writer's favourite and I've heard that Aramis was very often not liked at all - I suppose because he defies and often outwits "the hero" who in real life was quite famous whilst the real life Athos, Porthos and Aramis (yes they all existed, with near enough those names) were not well known.

I quickly took sides from Twenty Years After onwards and it was never d'Artagnan's side. Aramis was the leader of events in my view, d'Artagnan the Royal agent trying to keep up with Aramis, Athos was the retired incredibly decent and noble gentleman, almost a recluse but for attending to his adopted son Raoul. Athos is almost too good to be true. Porthos was a lot of fun and very lovable and helpful to his friends and Aramis says that Porthos is the man in all the world whom he most loves.

The real life Athos was not a comte but a kind of nouveau riche - often identified by their string of titles such as the real Athos and Porthos both had. Athos was one of his titles. His first name was Armand (Dumas gave him the first name Olivier, not in the books but in a play he wrote later), and he died around age 25, probably in a duel amongst those quarrelsome young men. He may have served with Henri d'Amaritz (Aramis, called Rene d'Herblay in the books), who was of true noble birth although didn't have a title. The "old nobility" didn't always have titles. Their names/families/properties proclaimed if they were genuine old nobility - knights of old, and the like - of centuries back. Nouveau-riche type "nobles" like Athos and Porthos obtained a title (Porthos as Baron) through services in administration or whatever work for the community. Aramis retired from the musketeers in due course, returned to his lands and married. He also inherited a status of "lay preacher" - he was not in the priesthood. Isaac de Porthau was from an area called Porthau and a family of administrators and the like. Treville was a comte and related to all of the "four musketeers" one way or another. D'Artagnan, I think I remember rightly, was somewhat older than the others and may have met Athos before Athos died. D'Artagnan did quite late in life become Captain of the Musketeers. All four of these men were from the same area of France as Treville - Gascony. My information is from a fascinating book you can find on Amazon: "Four Musketeers: The True Story of D'Artagnan, Porthos, Aramis and Athos"

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G. K. Griffiths

Better to read the first two instalments first

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 6, 2017

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I started reading this novel with great enthusiasm and found the story flowed very well in the first few chapters. However it gradually became apparent that characters were appearing in the storyline that I had not encountered previously and I eventually found myself struggling to keep track of the story. I suspect that this is due to my not having read the previous two instalments of the Musketeers story. Consequently I gave up on the latter part of this book having somewhat lost the plot. I also found the presentation of the Kindle version frustrating with pages of continuous text with no paragraph breaks usually followed by a few pages of dialogue which involved continual page turns in very rapid succession.

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RIMS

Good, but not as good as his Three Musketeers

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 18, 2016

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A good story, but not as good as The Three Musketeers in my opinion. Whilst the latter had my 11 year old engrossed, he had to be cajoled into finishing this. The deaths of Porthos, and various others, were in addition a bit of a downer for a young lad still at the happy ending age.

But the switch of emphasis from the adventurous derring do of The Three Musketeers, to the more plodding intrigue and plotting of this book undermines the rascally and engaging charm of the musketeers, which is what had drawn you into the series in the first place.

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Clare

Very interesting read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 20, 2016

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In the long run, the book was very good, but it was hard reading. The old style language took a lot of getting used to. Bearing in mind when it was actually written! Though I expect it was actually very more descriptive than todays "English" Many words used would not be used today - hence the difficulty. (I Used the dictionary quite a lot, but that just made it more interesting) Also, since he was actually French, the Translation may be an influence too. Once you get used to that, the story was very good.

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