The Three Musketeers recounts the adventures d'Artagnan, a poor young nobleman, who leaves home and travels to Paris to join the elite Musketeers of the Guard. He joins the three most formidable musketeers of the age--Athos, Porthos and Aramis--and they get involved in affairs of the state and the court. Pitted against the Machiavellian Cardinal Richelieu and the unscrupulous seductress Milady de Winter they need all their valour and swordsmanship. This riveting novel is a swashbuckling classic and one of the most famous historical novels ever written. (Complete and unabridged.)