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Twenty Years After: A Sequel to The Three Musketeers
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 to readers, 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.
With Twenty Years After Dumas’s Musketeers Cycle becomes a real ongoing series, beginning a long story arc that will be continued in The Son of Milady, adventure following adventure until the final climax in The Man in the Iron Mask.
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 to readers, 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.
With Twenty Years After Dumas’s Musketeers Cycle becomes a real ongoing series, beginning a long story arc that will be continued in The Son of Milady, adventure following adventure until the final climax in The Man in the Iron Mask.
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Published October 1, 2019
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Alexandre Dumas
6,985 books12.3k followersThis note regards Alexandre Dumas, père, the father of Alexandre Dumas, fils (son). For the son, see Alexandre Dumas fils.
Alexandre Dumas père, born Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, was a towering figure of 19th-century French literature whose historical novels and adventure tales earned global renown. Best known for The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, and other swashbuckling epics, Dumas crafted stories filled with daring heroes, dramatic twists, and vivid historical backdrops. His works, often serialized and immensely popular with the public, helped shape the modern adventure genre and remain enduring staples of world literature.
Dumas was the son of Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, a celebrated general in Revolutionary France and the highest-ranking man of African descent in a European army at the time. His father’s early death left the family in poverty, but Dumas’s upbringing was nonetheless marked by strong personal ambition and a deep admiration for his father’s achievements. He moved to Paris as a young man and began his literary career writing for the theatre, quickly rising to prominence in the Romantic movement with successful plays like Henri III et sa cour and Antony.
In the 1840s, Dumas turned increasingly toward prose fiction, particularly serialized novels, which reached vast audiences through French newspapers. His collaboration with Auguste Maquet, a skilled plotter and historian, proved fruitful. While Maquet drafted outlines and conducted research, Dumas infused the narratives with flair, dialogue, and color. The result was a string of literary triumphs, including The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, both published in 1844. These novels exemplified Dumas’s flair for suspenseful pacing, memorable characters, and grand themes of justice, loyalty, and revenge.
The D’Artagnan Romances—The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte of Bragelonne—cemented his fame. They follow the adventures of the titular Gascon hero and his comrades Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, blending historical fact and fiction into richly imagined narratives. The Count of Monte Cristo offered a darker, more introspective tale of betrayal and retribution, with intricate plotting and a deeply philosophical core.
Dumas was also active in journalism and theater. He founded the Théâtre Historique in Paris, which staged dramatizations of his own novels. A prolific and energetic writer, he is estimated to have written or co-written over 100,000 pages of fiction, plays, memoirs, travel books, and essays. He also had a strong interest in food and published a massive culinary encyclopedia, Le Grand Dictionnaire de cuisine, filled with recipes, anecdotes, and reflections on gastronomy.
Despite his enormous success, Dumas was frequently plagued by financial troubles. He led a lavish lifestyle, building the ornate Château de Monte-Cristo near Paris, employing large staffs, and supporting many friends and relatives. His generosity and appetite for life often outpaced his income, leading to mounting debts. Still, his creative drive rarely waned.
Dumas’s mixed-race background was a source of both pride and tension in his life. He was outspoken about his heritage and used his platform to address race and injustice. In his novel Georges, he explored issues of colonialism and identity through a Creole protagonist. Though he encountered racism, he refused to be silenced, famously replying to a racial insult by pointing to his ancestry and achievements with dignity and wit.
Later in life, Dumas continued writing and traveling, spending time in Belgium, Italy, and Russia. He supported nationalist causes, particularly Italian unification, and even founded a newspaper to advocate for Giuseppe Garibaldi. Though his popularity waned somewhat in his final years, his literary legacy grew steadily. He wrote in a style that was accessible, entertaining, and emotionally reso
Alexandre Dumas père, born Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, was a towering figure of 19th-century French literature whose historical novels and adventure tales earned global renown. Best known for The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, and other swashbuckling epics, Dumas crafted stories filled with daring heroes, dramatic twists, and vivid historical backdrops. His works, often serialized and immensely popular with the public, helped shape the modern adventure genre and remain enduring staples of world literature.
Dumas was the son of Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, a celebrated general in Revolutionary France and the highest-ranking man of African descent in a European army at the time. His father’s early death left the family in poverty, but Dumas’s upbringing was nonetheless marked by strong personal ambition and a deep admiration for his father’s achievements. He moved to Paris as a young man and began his literary career writing for the theatre, quickly rising to prominence in the Romantic movement with successful plays like Henri III et sa cour and Antony.
In the 1840s, Dumas turned increasingly toward prose fiction, particularly serialized novels, which reached vast audiences through French newspapers. His collaboration with Auguste Maquet, a skilled plotter and historian, proved fruitful. While Maquet drafted outlines and conducted research, Dumas infused the narratives with flair, dialogue, and color. The result was a string of literary triumphs, including The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, both published in 1844. These novels exemplified Dumas’s flair for suspenseful pacing, memorable characters, and grand themes of justice, loyalty, and revenge.
The D’Artagnan Romances—The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte of Bragelonne—cemented his fame. They follow the adventures of the titular Gascon hero and his comrades Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, blending historical fact and fiction into richly imagined narratives. The Count of Monte Cristo offered a darker, more introspective tale of betrayal and retribution, with intricate plotting and a deeply philosophical core.
Dumas was also active in journalism and theater. He founded the Théâtre Historique in Paris, which staged dramatizations of his own novels. A prolific and energetic writer, he is estimated to have written or co-written over 100,000 pages of fiction, plays, memoirs, travel books, and essays. He also had a strong interest in food and published a massive culinary encyclopedia, Le Grand Dictionnaire de cuisine, filled with recipes, anecdotes, and reflections on gastronomy.
Despite his enormous success, Dumas was frequently plagued by financial troubles. He led a lavish lifestyle, building the ornate Château de Monte-Cristo near Paris, employing large staffs, and supporting many friends and relatives. His generosity and appetite for life often outpaced his income, leading to mounting debts. Still, his creative drive rarely waned.
Dumas’s mixed-race background was a source of both pride and tension in his life. He was outspoken about his heritage and used his platform to address race and injustice. In his novel Georges, he explored issues of colonialism and identity through a Creole protagonist. Though he encountered racism, he refused to be silenced, famously replying to a racial insult by pointing to his ancestry and achievements with dignity and wit.
Later in life, Dumas continued writing and traveling, spending time in Belgium, Italy, and Russia. He supported nationalist causes, particularly Italian unification, and even founded a newspaper to advocate for Giuseppe Garibaldi. Though his popularity waned somewhat in his final years, his literary legacy grew steadily. He wrote in a style that was accessible, entertaining, and emotionally reso
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May 22, 2022
Dumas has to have been one of the greatest prose writers of the 19th century. One never tires of his sentences nor does he let his story drag. While I loved "Three Musketeers" when I read it as a teenager and became so excited as I turned almost every page, I didn't get the same rise I expected out of "Twenty Years After" probably because I myself have become jaded and now know a little more of what d'Artagnan felt as a youth in a crew of rough men, men perpetually in love with a beautiful woman and brave and daring because of it, which is the dream of every normal man. Nevertheless, it is definitely worth anyone's time to read this ancient, throbbing classic.
August 21, 2025
4.5. Loved it. Can’t wait for part 2.
February 15, 2025
3 - 3.5 stars
I’ll start by noting that Lawrence Ellsworth’s project to tackle the entire Three Musketeers cycle in a unified English translation is a laudable one, though I have to disagree with his contention that many of the older translations are “…stiff, long-winded, and passive to today’s readers.” Personally, I actually derive a lot of pleasure from their mannered style and identify it closely with my enjoyment of Dumas. Ellsworth’s approach is definitely more modern than my favourite editions have been, but I guess I am either more accepting of the fact that the only way I will find a complete and unabridged version of the Musketeer cycle is to make some accordances with translation, or perhaps I’m less crotchety about it these days since I think Ellsworth’s translation manages to walk the fine line between being true to the source material without “updating” it in a way that throws the reader (or me at least) out of the era the story is trying to convey.
I first read Twenty Years After (in a different, older, much more mannered edition) when I was in high school and it came as something of a revelation. I had never come across a series where we followed the adventures of characters we knew and loved, but who had changed significantly (in some ways at least) from when we last saw them. Certainly D’Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis still display many of the archetypal characteristics they displayed in the original Three Musketeers, but they’ve also grown and changed…perhaps sometimes simply growing more into who they were, while at other times diverging somewhat, but it was something I had never experienced. I was used to heroes that lived in an eternal ‘now’, serially living out the same adventures with any growth or change that may have occurred usually forgotten or plastered over in subsequent adventures. Here we see a group of men growing into middle age and coming to grips with what that means for their lives. I was also gob-smacked that the band of brothers who famously proclaimed, “All for one, and one for all!” were now divided and (at least initially) at odds with one another.
D’Artagnan has nearly given up, passed over for promotion since the end of the last book, and is a jaded and world-weary cynic far from the hopeful youth he had once been. Aramis still intrigues and lives two lives: now an ordained abbot in a Jesuit monastery he instead dreams of his martial days as a musketeer, yearning for action. Porthos, apparently living his dream as the widowed magnate of several rich properties, finds that sometimes getting what you want just isn’t enough and there is always greener grass in some other pasture. Only Athos seems content with his lot having found fulfillment and love in the form of his ‘adopted’ son Raoul and living the life of a proud mentor. Apparently content in the life of a country nobleman in retirement, there are hints that beneath even his calm demeanor there lurks the shadow of fear and doubt. As D’Artagnan himself says: ”The happy loyalty of youth has given way to the voice of self-interest, the spur of ambition, and the conceit of pride.”
This edition is the first half of Dumas’ original Twenty Years After and covers the years of the Fronde, when civil war boils under the surface of the French court. Anne of Austria, now Queen regent for her son (the future Sun King Louis XIV) after the death of Louis XII tries to navigate the politics of her day, mostly by ceding power to Cardinal Mazarin, the foxy successor to Richelieu’s wolf. Seeing a chance to finally achieve advancement D’Artagnan casts his lot with the seemingly all-powerful Mazarin, drawing in his equally ambitious old friend Porthos. Athos and Aramis, unfortunately for our daring duo, stand on the side of the Princes against Mazarin, so they have their work cut out for them. At the tail end of the book the more full-blooded civil war of England makes an appearance as does the arrival of an unexpected villain personified as a dark shadow from the musketeer’s past. It’s a good tale, and a for me a pleasure to be back in the action with some old friends, regardless of how they may have changed over the years. After all, haven’t we all?
I’ll start by noting that Lawrence Ellsworth’s project to tackle the entire Three Musketeers cycle in a unified English translation is a laudable one, though I have to disagree with his contention that many of the older translations are “…stiff, long-winded, and passive to today’s readers.” Personally, I actually derive a lot of pleasure from their mannered style and identify it closely with my enjoyment of Dumas. Ellsworth’s approach is definitely more modern than my favourite editions have been, but I guess I am either more accepting of the fact that the only way I will find a complete and unabridged version of the Musketeer cycle is to make some accordances with translation, or perhaps I’m less crotchety about it these days since I think Ellsworth’s translation manages to walk the fine line between being true to the source material without “updating” it in a way that throws the reader (or me at least) out of the era the story is trying to convey.
I first read Twenty Years After (in a different, older, much more mannered edition) when I was in high school and it came as something of a revelation. I had never come across a series where we followed the adventures of characters we knew and loved, but who had changed significantly (in some ways at least) from when we last saw them. Certainly D’Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis still display many of the archetypal characteristics they displayed in the original Three Musketeers, but they’ve also grown and changed…perhaps sometimes simply growing more into who they were, while at other times diverging somewhat, but it was something I had never experienced. I was used to heroes that lived in an eternal ‘now’, serially living out the same adventures with any growth or change that may have occurred usually forgotten or plastered over in subsequent adventures. Here we see a group of men growing into middle age and coming to grips with what that means for their lives. I was also gob-smacked that the band of brothers who famously proclaimed, “All for one, and one for all!” were now divided and (at least initially) at odds with one another.
D’Artagnan has nearly given up, passed over for promotion since the end of the last book, and is a jaded and world-weary cynic far from the hopeful youth he had once been. Aramis still intrigues and lives two lives: now an ordained abbot in a Jesuit monastery he instead dreams of his martial days as a musketeer, yearning for action. Porthos, apparently living his dream as the widowed magnate of several rich properties, finds that sometimes getting what you want just isn’t enough and there is always greener grass in some other pasture. Only Athos seems content with his lot having found fulfillment and love in the form of his ‘adopted’ son Raoul and living the life of a proud mentor. Apparently content in the life of a country nobleman in retirement, there are hints that beneath even his calm demeanor there lurks the shadow of fear and doubt. As D’Artagnan himself says: ”The happy loyalty of youth has given way to the voice of self-interest, the spur of ambition, and the conceit of pride.”
This edition is the first half of Dumas’ original Twenty Years After and covers the years of the Fronde, when civil war boils under the surface of the French court. Anne of Austria, now Queen regent for her son (the future Sun King Louis XIV) after the death of Louis XII tries to navigate the politics of her day, mostly by ceding power to Cardinal Mazarin, the foxy successor to Richelieu’s wolf. Seeing a chance to finally achieve advancement D’Artagnan casts his lot with the seemingly all-powerful Mazarin, drawing in his equally ambitious old friend Porthos. Athos and Aramis, unfortunately for our daring duo, stand on the side of the Princes against Mazarin, so they have their work cut out for them. At the tail end of the book the more full-blooded civil war of England makes an appearance as does the arrival of an unexpected villain personified as a dark shadow from the musketeer’s past. It’s a good tale, and a for me a pleasure to be back in the action with some old friends, regardless of how they may have changed over the years. After all, haven’t we all?
February 23, 2025
**** 4.2 STARS **** words 127,970
This is a new translation by Lawrence Ellsworth, and is the first of two books which make up, Twenty Years After.
Alexandre Dumas is responsible for two of the greatest books, ever. And Twenty Years After is another excellent book. Dumas is a master in building a scene. His dialogue is just fantastic. And due to his work being published weekly in a newspaper, his books keep your interest constantly with wanting to know what happens next.
I can't wait to read the second part.
This is a new translation by Lawrence Ellsworth, and is the first of two books which make up, Twenty Years After.
Alexandre Dumas is responsible for two of the greatest books, ever. And Twenty Years After is another excellent book. Dumas is a master in building a scene. His dialogue is just fantastic. And due to his work being published weekly in a newspaper, his books keep your interest constantly with wanting to know what happens next.
I can't wait to read the second part.
December 1, 2021
Book 2 of the incredible Three Musketeers series.
July 29, 2025
I don't really know what to say other than I loved it. I can't decide if I like this one or the first one more. It really shows you how thankless their loyalty is in this one from the very beginning. It does a great job of telling what happened the 20 years between books without feeling like an info dump. The clever story telling method was awesome. Idk I really liked it was cool seeing them be more disenchanted about the monarchs and not trying to hide it. Imo.
October 27, 2023
Now this is what I imagined The Three Musketeers would be! Action, drama, and friendship. Little to no romance (I like the more mature D'Artagnan. I want to recommend this book, but still think you have to go through The Three Musketeers beforehand.
July 2, 2023
Twenty Years has passed with our musketeers and time hasn't been kind; d'Artagnan is treading water and poor, Porthos wants a barony, and Aramis is a discontented abbé, only Athos is doing well.
The Phantom of Richelieu is the first chapter of the book, and the great man indeed looms. The lads nostalgically look back at Richelieu's machinations and character being much more sophisticated than his successor, Cardinal Mazarin; much like Richelieu's successor, Milady's successor - her son Mordaunt - is not quite as machiavellian nor sinister.
A theme of degeneration hits home here, Porthos even commenting that even the horses are not what they once were*.
There's a lot to say but essentially, it's a very exciting read full of intrigues and page turning action. It is the friendship that is one of the major appeals of the book. The boys, with Athos as an exception, are all sort of arseholes serving arsehole masters and they are bloodthirsty, vain and scheming, but their closeness makes them endearing.
There is a lot to critique - the characters are maybe underdeveloped, the 'historical' in the historical fiction is ludicrous and it's perhaps too long - but as a melodramatic romance novel, it rocks.
However, the sections that involve cruel abuse towards and death to horses hit me hard and were tough to read, sadly.
The Phantom of Richelieu is the first chapter of the book, and the great man indeed looms. The lads nostalgically look back at Richelieu's machinations and character being much more sophisticated than his successor, Cardinal Mazarin; much like Richelieu's successor, Milady's successor - her son Mordaunt - is not quite as machiavellian nor sinister.
A theme of degeneration hits home here, Porthos even commenting that even the horses are not what they once were*.
There's a lot to say but essentially, it's a very exciting read full of intrigues and page turning action. It is the friendship that is one of the major appeals of the book. The boys, with Athos as an exception, are all sort of arseholes serving arsehole masters and they are bloodthirsty, vain and scheming, but their closeness makes them endearing.
There is a lot to critique - the characters are maybe underdeveloped, the 'historical' in the historical fiction is ludicrous and it's perhaps too long - but as a melodramatic romance novel, it rocks.
However, the sections that involve cruel abuse towards and death to horses hit me hard and were tough to read, sadly.
October 20, 2023
I like Dumas' decision to not pick up directly from where he left off with the Three Musketeers and instead setting this sequel Twenty Years After™. The characters have grown and changed in some ways, but in other ways are very much the same. The characterizations of The Inseparables are a lot stronger in this book. The intrigue is deeper. Twenty Years After feels more linked with major historical events in a way that is satisfying.
Athos' relationship with Raoul reminds me a whole lot of The Count of Monte Cristo's titular character and Albert de Morcerf. It seems like Dumas' learned a bit from that book that he put into effect in this story as well.
This edition of Twenty Years After if the first half of a story that is completed in Lawrences' Blood Royal. It very much feels like the first half of a story. The place selected to end the story is very fitting, all things considered, but it reminded me that this is very much only half a book. It feels unfair to rate this separately from Blood Royal, but I'm doing it anyways.
Athos' relationship with Raoul reminds me a whole lot of The Count of Monte Cristo's titular character and Albert de Morcerf. It seems like Dumas' learned a bit from that book that he put into effect in this story as well.
This edition of Twenty Years After if the first half of a story that is completed in Lawrences' Blood Royal. It very much feels like the first half of a story. The place selected to end the story is very fitting, all things considered, but it reminded me that this is very much only half a book. It feels unfair to rate this separately from Blood Royal, but I'm doing it anyways.
September 19, 2025
D'Artagnan odioso, irritante, fastidioso, inutile, spocchioso e arrogante come sempre. Athos è certamente misogino, ma almeno considera le donne capaci di qualcosa, sia pure ingannare e far fuori gli uomini (I can fix him).
E comunque, chi pensa che i classici siano noiosi chiaramente non ha mai letto il capitolo di De Beaufort in prigione (l'aragosta e il cane >>>)
"Ebbene, monsignore, su una parete della mia cella sta inciso con la punta di un chiodo un proverbio: tale il padrone--
"Lo conosco. Tale il domestico".
"No. Tale il servitore. È un piccolo cambiamento che le persone devote, di cui vi parlavo poco fa, vi hanno apportato per la loro personale soddisfazione".
"Ebbene? Che vuol dire il proverbio?"
"Significa che monsieur de Richelieu ha saputo trovare dei servitori devoti, e a dozzine".
"Lui? Il punto di mira di tutti i pugnali? Lui che passò tutta la vita a parare i colpi che gli si vibravavano?"
"Ma infine li parò, sebbene fossero scagliati fortemente, perché, se aveva buoni nemici, aveva anche buoni amici".
E comunque, chi pensa che i classici siano noiosi chiaramente non ha mai letto il capitolo di De Beaufort in prigione (l'aragosta e il cane >>>)
"Ebbene, monsignore, su una parete della mia cella sta inciso con la punta di un chiodo un proverbio: tale il padrone--
"Lo conosco. Tale il domestico".
"No. Tale il servitore. È un piccolo cambiamento che le persone devote, di cui vi parlavo poco fa, vi hanno apportato per la loro personale soddisfazione".
"Ebbene? Che vuol dire il proverbio?"
"Significa che monsieur de Richelieu ha saputo trovare dei servitori devoti, e a dozzine".
"Lui? Il punto di mira di tutti i pugnali? Lui che passò tutta la vita a parare i colpi che gli si vibravavano?"
"Ma infine li parò, sebbene fossero scagliati fortemente, perché, se aveva buoni nemici, aveva anche buoni amici".
August 31, 2024
I remember being very impressed by The Three Musketeers. It felt like an action movie that was made 15 years ago, not 150 years ago. But what's more is that it had many a poetic turn of phrase.
Turns out there were more books in the series. There's a trilogy with our favorite 4 musketeers and then a standalone book about Cardinal Richelieu. This is the second book. It was just as enjoyable as the first! It had action a-plenty and a goodly number of masterful sentences. To wit:
‘Friendship grows deep roots in honest hearts…(144) Athos
There’s nothing more convincing than conviction; it’s persuasive even to the skeptics…(162)
It’s the nature of Man to seek perfection in all things, including pies. (188)
Sleep is a capricious deity that stays away just when it’s most devoutly desired, (195)
I'm hunting right now for the 3rd book. At first glance none of the libraries in my consortium have it.
Turns out there were more books in the series. There's a trilogy with our favorite 4 musketeers and then a standalone book about Cardinal Richelieu. This is the second book. It was just as enjoyable as the first! It had action a-plenty and a goodly number of masterful sentences. To wit:
‘Friendship grows deep roots in honest hearts…(144) Athos
There’s nothing more convincing than conviction; it’s persuasive even to the skeptics…(162)
It’s the nature of Man to seek perfection in all things, including pies. (188)
Sleep is a capricious deity that stays away just when it’s most devoutly desired, (195)
I'm hunting right now for the 3rd book. At first glance none of the libraries in my consortium have it.
August 7, 2021
Really a 4.5 Great and unexpected follow up to the great Three Musketeers. This book is a master class in adding depth, flaws, and understanding to characters that one already knows and loves without taking away from your appreciation of them. These are the Musketeers you thought you knew but now you realize you saw them through a dirty lens that allowed only a shallow understanding. Our friends have grown up and so had the world they inhabit. And while maturity can be at times a bitter drink, adjusting and finding yourself within this new reality is the cornerstone of this tale. You will learn to love, hate, love again, and respect characters in ways you did not expect in the slightest. Fantastic second chapter that leaves you once again thirsty for more.
(This review also goes for Blood Royal as it is the second half of the tale.)
(This review also goes for Blood Royal as it is the second half of the tale.)
July 7, 2022
Я не могла відірватися від нових пригод цих неймовірних мушкетерів. Дружба, яка подолала всі випробування і навіть через 20 років залишилась такою ж міцною, дійсно неймовірна. Мене знову захопила їх сміливість, відданість та кмітливість, які назавжди залишились з ними, недивлячись на ті зміни що відбулись за цей довгий час у Франції та з нашими героями. В цій книзі я знову відчула ту чудову, теплу атмосферу яку так вправно вміє створювати А. Дюма. З впевненістю можу сказати, що ця книга є не менш цікавою ніж її попередня частина - "Три мушкетера".
December 22, 2021
I love Dumas and the way he writes. Although I probably enjoyed the first book more and felt like it had a bit more of a cohesive story, I loved this novel's blend of history and fiction and will definitely try to read the next installations in the series. I loved being able to read this at work, even though I probably wasn't able to give it my full attention, and get through it a lot quicker than I probably would have otherwise.
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April 1, 2020I was quite looking forward to this.
The translation is crisp and as good as Ellsworth's previous translations.
But, what with everything with Covid 19, I am putting it aside half way through. I just am not able to keep up with it. Hopefully in the future I can give it a re-read when I am not burned out from spending the majority of each day cyber-teaching.
The translation is crisp and as good as Ellsworth's previous translations.
But, what with everything with Covid 19, I am putting it aside half way through. I just am not able to keep up with it. Hopefully in the future I can give it a re-read when I am not burned out from spending the majority of each day cyber-teaching.
May 27, 2024
Twenty years after the events of The Three Musketeers, the Three Musketeers and D'Artangnan are confronted with more of the machinations of the French Royalty. A near revolt of the masses and the lesser nobility, initially has the four comrades divided on separate camps. We see a more jaded D'Artagnan and the four expressing strange new respect for the departed Cardinal Richelieu.
March 11, 2023
This whole 'series' was amazing! I read them one after another and was 'swept along' at a break neck speed. I started with 'Louise de la Valliere', '10 years after', '20 years after', 'The 3 musketeers', 'the man in the iron mask'.
December 24, 2022
It is interesting that Dumas had aged up the Musketeers by 20 years. It gives them a different perspective on life. It is a hard book to start. The middle in England is the most interesting.
September 3, 2023
Mordaunt, my dearly beloved and beloathed ❤️
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