Excerpt from Episodes From Alexander Dumas' Les Trois Mousquetaires: Edited With Introduction, Notes, and Vocabulary It is as the king of entertainers that Alexandre Dumas holds a unique place in the literature of the xixth century. A recent census in the French hospitals showed that no books are so frequently as his found under the pillow of the sick-bed. Nor are the most cultivated minds insensible to his fascination. Robert Louis Stevenson declares that Dumas approaches perhaps nearest of any modern to the Arabian authors in the purely material charm of some of his romances. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.