Three Musketeers (Volumes 1-2) - Fragrant Books

Author: (French) Alexandre Dumas
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: The ancients said, "Travel ten thousand miles and read ten thousand books." For modern people, traveling ten thousand miles is easy, but reading ten thousand books is difficult. The wheels of technology are sweeping across the world at an astonishing speed. The modern people, busy in front of computers and all kinds of machines all day, have turned the earth into a village with wires, optical cables, tracks, or air routes. With a click of the mouse, we can paste ourselves anywhere in the world. However, in the face of vast civilizations, without the foundation of reading ten thousand books, we not only frequently encounter the awkwardness of "meeting face to face but not recognizing each other," but we also accumulate those strangenesses that come from the bottom of our hearts. For this, we long for a deeper understanding, for a connection of the soul; we long for a return to a way of traveling—before traveling ten thousand miles, put a few books in our spiritual backpack so that our steps and souls can go further. A spiritual journey does not require "writing poems in youth and exhausting oneself in studies in old age," nor does it require hanging a beam to support one's head, or chipping through a wall to steal light. Nor does it require a red sleeve adding fragrance or never putting down a book. A spiritual journey only requires reading a few classics in the leisure of life. Novels, essays, and poems can all be made into soup for the soul; buses, subways, and even the palms of our hands can be our desks. Therefore, we have tailor-made a "pocket library" for busy urban dwellers. Classics are the soul of the library; easy to absorb is the essence of the library; reading anytime, anywhere, and in any way is the purpose of the library. The selected works in the library are all true classics that have been refined after exposing themselves to the harsh realities and waves of different civilizations; the illustrations, carefully selected and painstakingly collected from hundreds of rare books and private collections, are a true restoration of the essence of the classics. The small format design makes it as clever as a wallet; the special printing process makes every book "filled with hidden fragrance." Classics are not afraid of time, but life cannot withstand the erosion of "time flies." The charm of classics is better seen than heard. It is better to use them to patch the gaps in our time, to add value to the fragments of our days; it is better to use on-the-go reading anytime, anywhere, to gather wisdom bit by bit and to realize life in the spiritual journey. Reading classics, with the least travel expenses, to reach the furthest corners of life. The Three Musketeers is a historical novel by the French romantic writer Alexandre Dumas. This book describes the story of several musketeers serving the queen in the early 17th century during the reign of King Louis XIII of France, who go to England to retrieve a necklace of diamonds from the Duke of Buckingham.