Twenty Years After

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Collins' Clear-Type Press, 1976 - Fiction - 712 pages
Twenty Years After is a sequel to The Three Musketeers and precedes The Vicomte de Bragelonne. It follows events in France during La Fronde, the childhood reign of Louis XIV, and in England near the end of the English Civil War. The musketeers are valiant and just in their efforts to protect Louis XIV and the doomed Charles I from their attackers. The d'Artagnan series includes; The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years, The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Ten Years Later, Louise de la Valliere and The Man in the Iron Mask. Alexandre Dumas was a French writer whose works have been translated into nearly 100 languages. His historical novels include The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, The Corsican Brothers, and The Man in the Iron Mask.

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About the author (1976)

After an idle youth, Alexandre Dumas went to Paris and spent some years writing. A volume of short stories and some farces were his only productions until 1927, when his play Henri III (1829) became a success and made him famous. It was as a storyteller rather than a playwright, however, that Dumas gained enduring success. Perhaps the most broadly popular of French romantic novelists, Dumas published some 1,200 volumes during his lifetime. These were not all written by him, however, but were the works of a body of collaborators known as "Dumas & Co." Some of his best works were plagiarized. For example, The Three Musketeers (1844) was taken from the Memoirs of Artagnan by an eighteenth-century writer, and The Count of Monte Cristo (1845) from Penchet's A Diamond and a Vengeance. At the end of his life, drained of money and sapped by his work, Dumas left Paris and went to live at his son's villa, where he remained until his death.

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