The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas

The Three Musketeers is a French historical adventure novel written in 1844 by author Alexandre Dumas, Père. It is in the swashbuckler genre, celebrating heroic, chivalrous swordsmen who fight for justice. Set between 1625 and 1628, it recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to travel to Paris, in hopes of joining the Musketeers of the Guard. Although d'Artagnan is not able to join this elite corps immediately, he is befriended by three of the most formidable musketeers of the age – Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, "the three musketeers.” Their daring adventures involving espionage, love, scandal, conspiracy, and suspense and their bond has come to be synonymous with devotion in friendship.

The Three Musketeers is primarily a historical and adventure novel. However, Dumas uses this entertaining adventure novel to shed light on the various injustices, abuses, and absurdities of the Ancien Régime, giving the novel an additional political significance at the time of its publication, a time when the debate in France between republicans and monarchists was still fierce.