Twenty Years After

by Alexandre Dumas, Lawrence Ellsworth (Editor), John Lee (Read by)

Overview

Originally published in 1845 as a sequel to The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After is a supreme creation of suspense and heroic adventure. Two decades have passed since the three musketeers triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady. Time has weakened their resolve and dispersed their loyalties. But treasons and stratagems still cry out for justice: civil war endangers the throne of France, while in England Cromwell threatens to send Charles I to the scaffold. Dumas brings his immortal quartet out of retirement to cross swords with time, the malevolence of men, and the forces of history. But their greatest test is a titanic struggle with the son of Milady, who wears the face of Evil.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781094066783
Publisher:	Blackstone Publishing
Publication date:	12/31/2019
Series:	d'Artagnan Romances Series , #2
Edition description:	Unabridged
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Alexandre Dumas, père, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (July 24, 1802 - December 5, 1870) was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, and The Man in the Iron Mask were serialized, and he also wrote plays and magazine articles and was a prolific correspondent.

Other Books of Dumas:
• The Count of Monte Cristo (1845)
• The Three Musketeers (1844)
• The Man in the Iron Mask (1850)
• Twenty Years After (1845)
• The Borgias (1840)
• Ten Years Later (1848)
• The Vicomte of Bragelonne (1847)
• The Black Tulip (1850)
• Louise de la Valliere (1849)
• Ali Pacha (1840)

Table of Contents

Blackstone Publishing presentsIntroductionsub- A...1 - Richelieu's Ghost2 - A Night PatrolII - A Night PatrolIII - Two Old EnemiesIV - Anne of Austria at Age Forty-SixV - Gascon and ItalianVI - D'Artagnan at Age FortyVII - In Which d'Artagnan Is Confounded, but Receives Aid from a Unexpected QuarterVIII - The Differing Effects of a Half-Pistole When Bestowed upon a Beadle and a ChoirboyIX - In Which d"Artagnan, Seeking aramis, Finds Him on Planchet's CrupperX - The Abbe d'HerblayXI - Pas de DeuxXII - Monsieur Porthos du Vallon de Bracieux de PierrefondsXIII - In Which d'Artagnan Finds Porthos, and Learns That Money Can't Buy HappinessXIV - In Which We Find That, If Porthos Was Unhappy with His Situation, Mousqueton Was NotXV - Angelic YouthXVI - The Chateau de BragelonneXVII - The Diplomacy of AthosXVIII - Monsieur de BeaufortXIX - How the Duc de Baeaufort Amused Himself in the Dungeon of VincennesXX - Grimaud Assumes His PostXXI - What Was Hidden in the Pies of Pere Marteau's SuccessorXXII - An adventure of Marie MichonXXIII - The Abbe ScarronXXIV - Saint-DenisXXV - One of the Duc de Beaufort's Forty Methods of EscapeXXVI - A Timely Arrival and a Hasty DepartureXXVII - The KingXXVII - The King's Highway XXVIII - EncounterXXIX - Good Councilor BrousselXXX - Four Old Friends Prepare for a CouncilXXXI - The Place RoyaleXXXII - The Oise FerryXXXIII - SkirmishXXXIV - The MonkXXXV - The AbsolutionXXXVI - Grimaud SpeaksXXXVII - The Eve of BattleXXXVIII - A Dinner as of OldXXXIX - The Letter from Charles IXL - The Letter from CromwellXLI - Mazarin and Queen HenrietteXLII - How Those in Need Sometimes Mistake Blind Luck for God's WillXLIII - The Uncle and the NephewXLIV - PaternityXLV - Once More the Queen Asks for AidXLVI - In Which It Is Shown That the First Impulse Is Always the Right OneThis concludes...

Editorial Reviews

• "Friendship throws out deep roots in honest hearts, D'Artagnan. Believe me, it is only the evil-minded who deny friendship; they cannot understand it."
• "Now an enemy is never so near and consequently so threatening, as when he has completely disappeared."
• "Women and doors - did I not tell you, friend Porthos, that they are always to be managed by gentleness? - D'Artagnan"

― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

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