The d'Artagnan Romances are a set of three novels by Alexandre Dumas, 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 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.
Books in the series
The Three Musketeers, set between 1625 and 1628; first published in serial form in the magazine Le Siècle between March and July 1844. Dumas claims in the foreword to have based it on manuscripts he had discovered in the Bibliothèque Nationale.
Twenty Years After, set between 1648 and 1649; serialized from January to August 1845.
, set between 1660 and 1673; serialized from October 1847 to January 1850. This vast novel has been split into three, four, or five volumes at various points.
* In the three-volume edition, the novels are titled The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Louise de la Vallière and The Man in the Iron Mask.
* In the four-volume edition, the novels are titled The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Ten Years Later, Louise de la Vallière and The Man in the Iron Mask.
* The five-volume edition generally does not give titles to the smaller portions.
Several sequels have been written by other writers since Dumas's death.
The Son of Porthos — written by Paul Mahalin, but published under the pen name "Alexandre Dumas" and still sold as such. d'Artagnan does not appear in this book.
D'Artagnan Kingmaker — supposedly based on one of Dumas's plays.
The King's Passport — by H. Bedford-Jones.
D'Artagnan, the sequel to the Three Musketeers — by H. Bedford-Jones.
Other connected books
The Red Sphinx is a sequel to The Three Musketeers, written by Dumas but left incomplete after seventy-five 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 Comte de Moret. It was first published in France in 1946. A new English translation appeared in 2017, in which the story was "completed" by the addition of Dumas's novella "The Dove".
