This brand-new translation of one of the world's masterpieces of adventure is alive with the excitement that has held generation after generation of readers spellbound. For those three inseparables, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, with their fourth comrade-in-arms, d'Artagnan, there never can be a dull moment. They are the archetypes of the "cape and sword" heroes whose persistence in fiction is the best possible tribute to Alexandre Dumas, the man who created them in their first and final perfection.