The Three Musketeers: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Three Musketeers, credited to Alexandre Dumas, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

Librivox recording of The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas. Read by LibriVox Volunteers. The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to become a musketeer. D'Artagnan is not one of the musketeers of the title; those are his friends Athos, Porthos, and Aramis -- inseparable friends who live by the motto, "One for all, and all for one". The Three Musketeers was first published in serial form in the magazine Le Siècle between March and July 1844. Dumas claimed it was based on manuscripts he had discovered in the Bibliothèque Nationale. It was later proven that Dumas had based his work on the book Mémoires de Monsieur D'Artagnan, capitaine lieutenant de la première compagnie des Mousquetaires du Roi (Memoirs of Mister D'Artagnan, Lieutenant Captain of the first company of the King's Musketeers) by Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras (Cologne, 1700). Dumas' version of the story covers the adventures of D'Artagnan and his friends from 1625 to 1628, as they are involved in intrigues involving the weak King Louis XIII of France, his powerful and cunning advisor Cardinal Richelieu, the beautiful Queen Anne of Austria, her English lover, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, and the Siege of La Rochelle. Adding to the intrigue are the mysterious Milady de Winter, and Richelieu's right-hand man, the Comte de Rochefort. (summary from wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Three Musketeers
• Author credits: Alexandre Dumas
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 69
• Listed recording duration: 24:49:46

Catalogue topics

• Dumas
• musketeers
• France
• D'Artagnan
• Athos
• Portos
• Aramis
• Richelieu

Opening tracks: first 24 of 69

1. 00 - Author's Preface — 5:59
2. 01 - The Three Presents of D'Artagnan the Elder — 39:21
3. 02 - The Antechamber of M. De Treville — 27:24
4. 03 - The Audience — 27:59
5. 04 - The Shoulder of Athos, The Baldric of Porthos and the Handerchief of Aramis — 17:54
6. 05 - The King's Musketeers and the Cardinal's Guards — 22:28
7. 06 - His Majesty King Louis XIII — 40:18
8. 07 - The Interior of — 22:27
9. 08 - Concerning A Court Intrigue — 21:11
10. 09 - D'Artagnan Shows HImself — 16:43
11. 10 - A Mousetrap in the Seventeenth Century — 21:08
12. 11 - In Which the Plot Thickens — 37:25
13. 12 - George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham — 21:23
14. 13 - Monsieur Bonacieux — 20:24
15. 14 - The Man of Meung — 22:10
16. 15 - Men of the Robe and Men of the Sword — 15:15
17. 16 - M. Seguier, Keeper of the Seals, Looks More Than Once for the Bell in Order to Ring It, As He Did Before — 21:03
18. 17 - Bonacieux at Home — 24:27
19. 18 - Lover and Husband — 15:24
20. 19 - Plan of Campaign — 15:53
21. 20 - The Journey — 21:56
22. 21 - The Countess de Winter — 21:58
23. 22 - The Ballet of La Merlaison — 16:15
24. 23 - The Rendevous — 21:20

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