📚 Education — Books
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The Three Musketeers
One of the great adventure novels of world literature. D'Artagnan arrives in Paris and joins the three musketeers Athos, Porthos, and Aramis in a swirling tale of loyalty, honor, betrayal, and political intrigue. The archetype of the swashbuckling epic.
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Twenty Years After
The sequel to The Three Musketeers, set twenty years later with the musketeers aging, divided, and called back to service during the upheaval of the Fronde and the execution of Charles I of England. Darker and more complex than its predecessor.
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Zorro
Allende's exuberant origin story of the masked hero Zorro, tracing Diego de la Vega from his childhood in colonial California through his education in Spain and his transformation into a champion of the oppressed. A swashbuckling adventure infused with magic realism and Latin American history.