I can't tell from this distance but I felt like a lot of Dumas was satirical, and that explained some of the dissonance. Three Musketeers was clearly a comedy, even if it didn't feel funny sometimes.
TM struck me insofar as he had to tell the reader that morals and what was considered socially acceptable had changed and some of what he was writing had to be read with that in mind, which I thought was an interesting meta-note.
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TM struck me insofar as he had to tell the reader that morals and what was considered socially acceptable had changed and some of what he was writing had to be read with that in mind, which I thought was an interesting meta-note.