The Musketeers Trilogy is Alexandre Dumas’s celebrated historical adventure series following the fortunes of d’Artagnan and the Three Musketeers—Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. Set against the political intrigues and conflicts of seventeenth-century France, the trilogy combines swordplay, romance, friendship, betrayal, espionage, and adventure on an epic scale.

The saga begins with The Three Musketeers, in which the ambitious young d’Artagnan travels to Paris and joins forces with Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. Together, the four companions become embroiled in dangerous political schemes surrounding King Louis XIII, Queen Anne of Austria, Cardinal Richelieu, and the mysterious Milady de Winter.

Twenty Years After returns to the heroes as political circumstances have changed and old friendships are tested by divided loyalties and civil conflict. The concluding novel, The Vicomte de Bragelonne, follows the characters into a later stage of their lives, introducing the ambitious young Louis XIV and expanding the story into questions of power, loyalty, destiny, and sacrifice.

Filled with memorable characters, dramatic duels, historical intrigue, humor, and Dumas’s famous spirit of camaraderie, the trilogy remains one of the great achievements of classic adventure fiction.