Twenty Years After - Alexandre Dumas - Book 3, Part 1

Title: Twenty Years After

Overview: The d'Artagnan Romances are a set of three novels by Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870), telling the story of the 17th-century musketeer d'Artagnan. Dumas based the character and attributes of d'Artagnan on the captain of musketeers Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan (c. 1611–1673) and the portrayal was particularly indebted to d'Artagnan's semi-fictionalized memoirs as written 27 years after the hero's death by Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras (published 1700). Twenty Years After (French: Vingt ans après) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, first serialized from January to August 1845. A book of The d'Artagnan Romances, it is a sequel to The Three Musketeers (1844) and precedes the 1847–1850 novel The Vicomte de Bragelonne (which includes the sub-plot Man in the Iron Mask). The novel follows events in France during the Fronde, during the childhood reign of Louis XIV, and in England near the end of the English Civil War, leading up to the victory of Oliver Cromwell and the execution of King Charles I. Through the words of the main characters, particularly Athos, Dumas comes out on the side of the monarchy in general, or at least the text often praises the idea of benevolent royalty. His musketeers are valiant and just in their efforts to protect young Louis XIV and the doomed Charles I from their attackers. The story of d'Artagnan is continued in The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later.

Published: 1845

List: Readers' Choice Collections, The d'Artagnan Romances Series, d'Artagnan #8

Author: Alexandre Dumas

Translator: William Robson

Genre: Classic Literature & Fiction, Historical Novel, Adventure Novel, Contemporary Literature & Fiction, Traveler & Explorer Biographies, Swashbuckler, Historical, Romantic

Episode: Twenty Years After - Alexandre Dumas - Book 3, Part 1

Part: 1 of 9

Length Part: 3:58:36

Book: 3

Length Book: 24:10:40

Episodes: 1 - 10 of 90

Predecessor: The Three Musketeers

Successor: The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later

Narrator: John Van Stan

Language: English

Rated: Guidance Suggested

Edition: Unabridged Audiobook

Keywords: Alexandre Dumas, Biography, Autobiography, True Crime, Criminology, Middle Ages, History, War, Military, Christianity, Early Modern, Historical, Fiction, Borgias, Cenci, Massacres, Deep South, Mary Stuart, Karl-Ludwig Sand, Urbain Grandier, Nisida, Desrues, La Constantin, Joan of Naples, Iron Mask, Martin Guerre, Ali Pacha, Countess de Saint-Geran, Murat, Marquise de Brinvilliers, Vaninka, Marquise de Ganges, The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo

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