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Twenty Years After
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
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Publisher's Summary
A new translation of Dumas’s rousing sequel to The Three Musketeers, picking up 20 years after the conclusion of that classic novel and continuing the adventures of the valiant d’Artagnan and his three loyal friends
The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas’s most famous and enduring novel, completed its serial publication in the summer of 1844, and by the time of its book publication at the end of that year, readers were already demanding a sequel. They got it starting in January 1845, when the first chapters of Twenty Years After began to appear - but it wasn’t quite what they were expecting.
When Twenty Years After opens it is 1648: the Red Sphinx, Cardinal Richelieu, is dead, France is ruled by a regency in the grip of civil war, and across the English Channel the monarchy of King Charles I hangs by a thread. As d’Artagnan will find, these are problems that can’t be solved with a sword thrust. In Twenty Years After, the musketeers confront maturity and face its greatest challenge: sometimes, you fail. It’s in how the four comrades respond to failure, and rise above it, that we begin to see the true characters of Dumas’s great heroes.
A true literary achievement, Twenty Years After is long overdue for a modern reassessment - and a new translation. As an added inducement, Lawrence Ellsworth has discovered a “lost” chapter that was overlooked in the novel’s original publication, and is included in none of the available English translations to date - until now.
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- Stephen S.
- 2019-11-12
Complete, published in two volumes, this is part 1
The intro is clear that this edition follows the Victorian tradition of publishing 'Twenty Years After' in two volumes. The first part, 'Twenty Years After', and the conclusion volume 'The Son of Milady'.
Publishing serialized novels was done in various configurations to suit the publisher's needs, this one splits it into two parts.
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- 2020-02-01
Really nice book.
Really good story, great narrator. Dumas stories are always wonderful, only thing is that the son of Milady, next book on the line, It’s not yet in audible so the story it’s just half way.
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