‘Twenty Years After’ is the sequel to Alexandre Dumas’ epic tale of love, loyalty and revenge, ‘The Three Musketeers, ‘ and features all of the surviving characters from the first book, now two decades older but no less willing to fight for their honor: d’Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis – the famous Musketeers – along with the evil Count Rochefort, the servant Planchet and the benevolent Queen Anne.
D’Artagnan, once a promising cadet, has watched his career stall and now finds himself under the thumb of Cardinal Richelieu’s successor, the equally powerful and scheming Cardinal Mazarin. What’s more, the son of the late Milady is bent on revenge for his mother’s death and is on the hunt for d’Artagnan and his friends to repay them for this perceived injustice.
Filled with thrills, intrigue, sword fights and political machinations, ‘Twenty Years After’ is Book Two of the d’Artagnan Romance novels and is presented here in its original and unabridged format.
About the author
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) was a prolific author and dramatist who became one of the most successful and widely-read writers of the Romantic period.The mixed-race son of an army general, young Dumas and his family fell on hard times after his father passed away. Dumas eventually moved to Paris to pursue a career in law but quickly fell into a life in the theatre, eventually writing a number of successful plays before turning to historical novels.In 1844, he produced what would become his best known work: Les Trois Mousquetaires (The Three Musketeers), a thrilling romance about four swashbuckling heroes in the age of Cardinal Richelieu. He quickly followed it up with Vingt ans après (Twenty Years After) in 1845 and – almost simultaneously – wrote his other smash hit Le Comte de Monte Cristo (The Count of Monte Cristo), published that same year.As he became more successful, his spending increased to the point where he had to write furiously just to keep his creditors at bay, but his later books, including Dix ans plus tard ou le Vicomte de Bragelonne (Ten Years Later; or, The Vicomte de Bragelonne); and La Tulipe noire (The Black Tulip) were also highly successful.Dumas is often referred to as ‘Père’ to distinguish him from his son, Alexandre Dumas fils, also a prolific and successful writer. Dumas died in 1870 of natural causes and was buried at his birthplace in Villers-Cotterêts but, in 2002 – to celebrate the bicentenary of his birth – Dumas body was disinterred and moved to the Panthéon in Paris, where many of France’s greatest luminaries are buried.Dumas’ books have been adapted into numerous stage, screen and television productions and his books remain wildly successful to this day.
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