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Originally Posted by gmw
But I feel as if I understand what Orczy intended with The Scarlet Pimpernel as a novel. Whereas I am far from sure I understand what Dumas intended with the Musketeers, there are what seem to me to be inconsistencies in the styling of it that leave me puzzled. If that is a result of the passage of time then I'd have to say Musketeers has not aged well, but I accept that it could be a lack of understanding on my part.
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The Dumas was written as a serial over quite a period of time, so those inconsistencies were probably because Dumas was changing his mind, or even forgetting earlier sections, as he wrote.