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Twenty Years After

Alexandre Dumas

Book Overview: 

Twenty Years After is a novel by Alexandre Dumas. It is a sequel to The Three Musketeers and precedes The Vicomte de Bragelonne (which includes the sub-plot, Man in the Iron Mask).

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .rance in these pages in the beginning of this history and whom we shall see again. It is understood, of course, that when we say "the queen," Mazarin is meant.

During the five years of this seclusion, which would have improved and matured the intellect of any other man, M. de Beaufort, had he not affected to brave the cardinal, despise princes, and walk alone without adherents or disciples, would either have regained his liberty or made partisans. But these considerations never occurred to the duke and every day the cardinal received fresh accounts of him which were as unpleasant as possible to the minister.

After having failed in poetry, Monsieur de Beaufort tried drawing. He drew portraits, with a piece of coal, of the cardinal; and as his talents did not enable him to produce a very good likeness, he wrote under the picture that there might be little doubt regarding the original: "Portrait of the Illustrious Coxcomb, Mazarin." Monsieur de Chavigny, th. . . Read More

Community Reviews

"-¿Existe acaso un hombre que pudiendo pedir no pida?
-Existe el conde de la Fère; pero el conde de la Fère no es hombre
-¿Pues qué es?
-Un semidiós, señora"

Fue una buena aventura aunque quizás no tan intensa como "Los tres Mosqueteros" sobre todo por los enemigos y el resultado final de sus andanzas.

Bello, bello, bello! Sebbene più malinconico e, forse, un po’ meno rocambolesco de I tre moschettieri, ritrovo qui i miei eroi invecchiati, maturi, ma sempre forti e tenaci. Dopo una partenza in sordina, finalmente i quattro amici indissolubili si ritrovano, anche se su lati opposti della barricata.

This sequel to The Three Musketeers is the “thinking man's” Blues Brothers, a “getting the band back together” tale that is set where such stories should be set: among friends in their forties and fifties, still vigorous in decline, constrained by the comforts and commitments of middle age. Hollywoo

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