The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, pere. 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 story of d'Artagnan is continued in Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne. Those three novels by Dumas are together known as the D'Artagnan Romances. The Three Musketeers was first published in serial form in the magazine...

Esta novela, una de las mas grandes e imperecederas de la literatura universal, contiene dos de los temas caracteristicos de Dostoyevski: la relacion entre la culpa y el castigo y la idea de la fuerza redentora del sufrimiento humano, planteando con todo vigor el conflicto entre el Bien y el Mal, ese dualismo etico que es una constante en la obra del autor. Bajo el armazon naturalista de una novela de tesis, subyace una alegoria metafisica y moral. Observa Dostoyevski que el castigo no intimida al criminal, 'pues este de por si pide ya moralmente un castigo'. Sin duda, Crimen y Castigo es la...

Many of the events of the novel are narrated twice; first by the 'editor', who gives his account of the facts as he understands them to be, and then in the words of the 'sinner' himself. The 'Editor's Narrative' starts in 1687 with the marriage of Rabina Orde to the much older George Colwan, Laird of Dalcastle. Rabina despises her new husband because he falls short of her extreme religious beliefs, his love of dancing and penchant for drinking alcohol. She initially flees him but her father forces her back, and they live separately in the one house. Rabina gives birth to two sons. The first,...