Record details

• ISBN: 9780679603320
• ISBN: 0679603328
• Physical Description: xxi, 598 pages ; 22 cm
• Edition: Modern Library edition.
• Publisher: New York : Modern Library, 1999.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Author's Preface: Wherein It Is Proved That Despite Their Names Ending in -os and -is, the Heroes of the Story We are About to Relate Have Nothing Mythological About Them xix -- I Three Gifts of Monsieur d'Artagnan the Elder 3 -- II Antechamber of Monsieur de Treville 16 -- III Audience 26 -- IV Of Athos and His Shoulder, of Porthos and His Baldric, and of Aramis and His Handkerchief 36 -- V His Majesty's Musketeers and the Cardinal's Guards 43 -- VI His Majesty King Louis XIII 53 -- VII Home Life of the Musketeers 69 -- VIII Concerning a Court Intrigue 76 -- IX D'Artagnan to the Fore 84 -- X Concerning a Mousetrap in the Seventeenth Century 91 -- XI In Which the Plot Thickens 100 -- XII George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham 115 -- XIII Of Monsieur Bonacieux 122 -- XIV Man of Meung 129 -- XV Men of Law and Men of the Sword 138 -- XVI Wherein Monsieur Pierre Seguier, Chancellor of France and Keeper of the Seals, Looks More Than Once for a Bell to Ring as Lustily as He Was Wont to Do of Yore 145 -- XVII Of Monsieur Bonacieux and His Lady 156 -- XVIII Lover and Husband 167 -- XIX Plan of Campaign 173 -- XX Journey 181 -- XXI Lady Clark 191 -- XXII In Which Their Majesties Dance La Merlaison, a Favorite Ballet of the King's 199 -- XXIII Rendezvous 206 -- XXIV Lodge 216 -- XXV Of What Happened to Porthos 225 -- XXVI Of Aramis and His Thesis 243 -- XXVII Of Athos and His Wife 259 -- XXVIII Return 278 -- XXIX Of the Hunt for Campaign Outfits 292 -- XXX Milady 300 -- XXXI Englishmen and Frenchmen 307 -- XXXII A Dinner at the House of an Attorney-at-Law 313 -- XXXIII Soubrette and Her Mistress 321 -- XXXIV Concerning the Respective Outfits of Aramis and Porthos 331 -- XXXV At Night All Cats Are Gray 338 -- XXXVI Dreams of Vengeance 345 -- XXXVII Of Milady's Secret 352 -- XXXVIII How Athos Without Lifting a Finger Procured His Equipment for the Campaign 358 -- XXXIX A Vision 366 -- XL Wherein D'Artagnan Meets His Eminence and Milady Speeds Him Off to War 374 -- XLI Siege of La Rochelle 381 -- XLII Of Anjou Wine and Its Salubrious Virtues 392 -- XLIII At the Sign of the Red Dovecote 399 -- XLIV Of the Utility of Stovepipes 406 -- XLV Husband and Wife 413 -- XLVI Bastion Saint-Gervais 418 -- XLVII Council of the Musketeers 424 -- XLVIII A Family Affair 440 -- XLIX Fatality 453 -- L Of an Intimate Conversation Between Brother and Sister 460 -- LI Of an Officer Out on a Stroll 466 -- LII Captivity: The First Day 475 -- LIII Captivity: The Second Day 481 -- LIV Captivity: The Third Day 487 -- LV Captivity: The Fourth Day 495 -- LVI Captivity: The Fifth Day 502 -- LVII How Milady Employed the Technique of Classical Tragedy to Prepare a Modern One 515 -- LVIII Escape 521 -- LIX Of What Occurred at Portsmouth on August 23, 1628 528 -- LX Of What Was Happening in France 538 -- LXI Of What Occurred at the Convent of the Carmelite Nuns in Bethune 543 -- LXII Of Two Varieties of Demons 555 -- LXIII Of Wine and Water 561 -- LXIV Man in the Red Cloak 573 -- LXV Day of Judgment 577 -- LXVI Of How Judgment Was Accomplished 585 -- LXVII Of the Cardinal, His Agent and a Lieutenant's Commission 589.

Study Program Information Note:

Accelerated Reader AR UG 11.3 42 547.

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