Dumas's D'Artagnan Romances

Dumas's trilogy taken in order, d'Artagnan from Gascon hothead to old soldier. The final volume alone outweighs most collected works.

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The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas, translated by William Robson
You get d’Artagnan’s reckless ambition, Athos’s wounded gravity, Porthos’s glorious vanity, and Aramis’s divided loyalties, all thrown into duels, disguises, and political intrigue. It’s melodramatic and episodic, but the friendship has such snap and warmth that you keep turning pages to spend more time with them.
Twenty Years After Alexandre Dumas, translated by Estes and Lauriat
The four friends are older here, scattered, even on opposite sides of a civil war for a while, and watching them find their way back to each other is the whole pleasure. It's slower than The Three Musketeers, but middle-aged d'Artagnan scheming against Mazarin is worth it.
The Vicomte de Bragelonne Alexandre Dumas, translated by George Routledge and Co.
You settle in for a long, melancholy farewell to Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and d’Artagnan, now older and pulled apart by politics, loyalty, and ambition. It moves more slowly than the earlier musketeer novels, but its sense of friendship aging into legend has real weight.

Dumas's trilogy taken in order, d'Artagnan from Gascon hothead to old soldier. The final volume alone outweighs most collected works.

sort genre era

The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas, translated by William Robson
You get d’Artagnan’s reckless ambition, Athos’s wounded gravity, Porthos’s glorious vanity, and Aramis’s divided loyalties, all thrown into duels, disguises, and political intrigue. It’s melodramatic and episodic, but the friendship has such snap and warmth that you keep turning pages to spend more time with them.
Twenty Years After Alexandre Dumas, translated by Estes and Lauriat
The four friends are older here, scattered, even on opposite sides of a civil war for a while, and watching them find their way back to each other is the whole pleasure. It's slower than The Three Musketeers, but middle-aged d'Artagnan scheming against Mazarin is worth it.
The Vicomte de Bragelonne Alexandre Dumas, translated by George Routledge and Co.
You settle in for a long, melancholy farewell to Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and d’Artagnan, now older and pulled apart by politics, loyalty, and ambition. It moves more slowly than the earlier musketeer novels, but its sense of friendship aging into legend has real weight.