Trying to write a short summary. "Three Musketeers" - briefly about the voluminous novel

How, you have not read The Three Musketeers? And you do not want to waste time reading such a thick book? Gentlemen, you lose a lot of fun.

The sound of swords, desperate dueling, racing, chasing, deceit and love, friendship and loyalty - this is the cocktail that attracts more than one generation of readers to the immortal work of Monsieur Dumas-father. The noble musketeers of the king and the vile guardsmen of the cardinal. The trusting king and the insidious cardinal Richelieu, the beautiful Anna of Austria and the insidious milady Winter ... By the way, most people who did not read at all a brief summary - "The Three Musketeers" in their entirety - long ago and firmly forgot that my Lady is not a name at all, but a title , And this is the name of this insidious and cruel seducer - Milady, with a capital letter. The name has become common, and if Milady is mentioned somewhere, it immediately becomes clear to everyone that this is the wife of the noble Athos.

But we digress. We are here, in fact, not carried out the restoration of biographies and names of the characters in the novel, but an attempt to present a brief summary.

"Three Musketeers," meaning, of course, the novel itself, begin about the same way as the famous Soviet musical film. The young gentleman d'Artagnan appears on the streets of little-known outside the French city of Meng. In his pocket he had a letter of recommendation to the captain of the royal musketeers, M. de Treville, and fifteen coins. He sits on horseback in the aged gelding of an unusual suit. This yellowish-red color of the horse and became the cause of the first brawl, which hit our Gascon. Further, these fights will not be counted, since the character of M. d'Artagnan and the customs of that time greatly contributed to the participation in a multitude of duels. But if you dwell on each duel in detail, you will get just a literal retelling of the novel, and not at all its brief content.

"Three Musketeers" Dumas-father is often accused of inaccurate adherence to historical realities, but no one is trying seriously to teach history on adventure novels or to study astronomy and physics in science fiction works. The key figures of the novel have real prototypes, nothing more. They are the decoration of a dish, not its main content.

But we again went to the side. We do not try to criticize the novel, but we write it, the novel "Three Musketeers", a brief summary.

Where did we leave off? Ah, yes - D'Artagnan in Menge meets Milady and Rochefort, on the orders of Lady Winter, they beat him painfully and take the letter. Without a recommendation from his father, M. de Treville refuses to immediately give him the coveted blue raincoat and enlist in the elite regiment, and our hero leaves the waiting room of the captain of the musketeers, armed only with the vague promise of the latter to enroll him in the company, but only after committing a couple of exploits.

Dreaming to get closer to the celestials, he does not particularly notice where he is going, and that his long tongue chats, and suddenly gets involved in three dueling in a row, and it is with the musketeers. Fate was pleased to not allow a fight with Athos, Porthos and Aramis, but she generously sent to the place of the fight immediately a whole company of Guards Cardinal. Musketeers, immediately forgetting that they wanted to fight the Gascon, enter into battle with the Guards. Our hero, too, can not keep the blade in the sheath and rushes to the aid of his former adversaries. The Musketeers and D'Artagnan, naturally, win. And further events stem from precisely this first large-scale battle of the Gascon.

We will not describe further events in detail, since the size of the article does not allow this, we will limit ourselves to writing a very brief content. The three Musketeers and their new comrade find themselves embroiled in many court and political intrigues. Monsieur d'Artagnan falls in love with a married woman and, for the sake of her beautiful eyes, leaves Richelieu's love claims with a nose. In this he is willingly helped by his three friends. In passing, the good name of Queen Anne is restored , but the beloved D'Artagnan and English duke Buckingham are dying. But our young adventurer becomes a musketeer. Now we could start talking about the fact that the novel needs to be renamed, since there are four musketeers, but we still have a brief description ... three musketeers, four musketeers - it's not so important what the numerals are in the title, besides the deceased gentleman Dumas-father can not be persuaded anyway.

Our desperate four, decides to restore justice and punish the main culprit of the death of beloved D'Artagnan Constance and the English duke he respects. Who do you think they have chosen as the last? Not Richelieu, who started all this intrigue, and not the queen, because of the love of which in Buckingham this story was brewed, and the immediate performer of the will of Richelieu is Milady.

Having chopped off the last head, our heroes decide that their mission has been carried out, and now we can just fight, without hammering our heads with court intrigues. Richelieu pretended that it should have been his intention, and even granted them a four-one patent for officer rank. Which of them should start to command, our friends must decide for themselves. Whom did they choose by open voting? That's right - d'Artagnan. The end.