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19th c. novels by Alexandre Dumas From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The d'Artagnan Romances are a set of three novels by Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870), telling the story of the 17th-century musketeer d'Artagnan.
Dumas based the character and attributes of d'Artagnan on captain of musketeers Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan (c. 1611–1673) and the portrayal was particularly indebted to d'Artagnan's semi-fictionalized memoirs as written 27 years after the hero's death by Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras (published 1700).[1]
The Red Sphinx is a sequel to The Three Musketeers, written by Dumas but left incomplete after 75 chapters. It is a sequel in story terms, but none of the Musketeers appear; the story chiefly follows Cardinal Richelieu, Queen Anne, and King Louis XIII, and a new hero, the Count of Moret (based on the real-life Antoine de Moret). It was first published in France in 1946. A new English translation appeared in 2017 with a large chapter called Les Habitués de l’Hotel de Rambouillet omitted and left untranslated, in which the story was "completed" by the addition of Dumas's novella "The Dove".[3]
Several sequels have been written by other writers since Dumas's death.
Fantasy novelist Steven Brust's Khaavren Romances books have all used Dumas novels (particularly the d'Artagnan Romances) as their chief inspiration, recasting the plots of those novels to fit within Brust's established world of Dragaera.[4] His 2020 novel The Baron of Magister Valley follows suit, using The Count of Monte Cristo as a starting point.[5][6]
Sarah Hoyt's (nom de plume Sarah D'Almeida) Musketeers series[7] begins with Death of a Musketeer, a Mystery Book Club selection, and includes four other titles from Berkley Prime Crime[8] and Goldport Press.
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