About this title: "Twenty Years After" (1845), is the sequel to "The Three Musketeers", Two decades have passed since the musketeers triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady. Time has weakened their resolve and dispersed their loyalties. But treasons and strategems still cry out for justice: civil war endangers the throne of France, while in England Cromwell ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: WORDSWORTH EDITIONS LTD Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781840221633ISBN:1840221631
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 704 pages. D'artaganan, athos, porthos and aramis reunite to fight the forces of evil. they need to face her vengeful son mordaunt, as well as countering the machinations of the sinister cardinal mazarin. (Paperback) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Collins Clear Type Press, London
Date Published: 3000
Description: Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall Tightly bound with contents clean and bright, good overall condition, we post daily from our UK warehouse, if you have any questions or require images then please don't hesitate to contact us for an immediate courteous response. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: London: Collins, no date.
Description: Hardback reprint in dust jacket. G/G (frayed and repaired). Front inner hinge loosening. (Collins pocket classics; 123). Ink inscription on the inside front cover. read more
Edition: Reissue
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: W. Foulsham, London
Description: Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Red cloth with black tiles, corners a little bumped and wear to extremities. The binding good and pages clean and good. One of the best of Dumas novels-wonderful. read more
Description: Good. Hardback book, no dust jacket, in good condition. Will have edgewear/shelfwear, may have other defects such as discolouration to block edges etc. For further details, please email. read more
Binding: Leather Bound
Publisher: Collins
Date Published: 1953
ISBN-13:9780004235028ISBN:0004235029
Description: Good. Dark green leatherbound copy, spine is worn with some faint marks to cover, complete with Olive Classics slip ase-exclusive to Boots written on slipcase, corners of slipcase have been knocked; rest All in good condition; read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Collins Clear-Type Press
Date Published: 1000
Description: Good. Undated publication; Hardback, No dustcover; Cover a bit worn and scuffed on extremities, Spine slightly faded; else All in good condition; read more
Binding: HARDCOVER
Publisher: Collins
Date Published: 1953
ISBN-13:9780004225029ISBN:0004225023
Description: Fair. Hardcover, smaller format hardcover no dust jacket, a good reading copy. Your book will be securely packed and promptly dispatched from our UK warehouse. read more
Binding: Leatherette
Publisher: Collins Clear-type Press, London
Description: Very Good. Limp Covers. 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall. Maroon leatherette binding with gilt titles to spine. A clean and sound copy with little wear. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Walter Scott Publishing Co
Date Published: 1000
Description: Very Good. Undated. Light foxing and tanning throughout. Hardback copy in worn boards; no dustwrapper. No major defects-unabridged, clean, complete, not falling apart; some light wear. A perfectly good reading or reference copy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Collins (Library of Classics), London
Description: Good. No date, c. 1920s, good solid copy, minor fading to cloth, hinges exposed, but binding otherwise fair, pages clean, browned with age, overall respectable condition. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: COLLINS
Date Published: 1000
Description: Good. Undated publication; Hardback, No dustcover; Cover a bit worn and spine faded; Front end paper removed; rest All in good condition; read more
Binding: Hard Back/Hardcover
Publisher: T. Nelson and Sons Ltd, London, UK
Description: Very Good. No Dustjacket. 6 1/4" Tall. 573 pages. No dustjacket. Very clean plum-red binding with gilt lettering and simple black decoration to spine. A few small marks to page-edges o/w contents very clean. Undated copy-looks mid-20th century. B&W plates. A very nice copy. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Collins, London
Date Published: 1940
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Softcover. 16mo-over 5¾"-6. 712pp. Undated circa 1940. Maroon immitation leather with gilt spine titles. Nice copy. read more
Description: Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Undated sequel to The Three Musketeers. An abridged edition from the mid-forties. Good solid copy with a Red Cross library sticker on the inside front cover and a small inkstain on the front cover otherwise clean. read more
Description: New. PLEASE NOTE: All books are promptly shipped from our UK warehouse using Royal Mail International Priority mail. Heavier or more expensive books are shipped with a TRACKING NUMBER. Professional and reliable bookseller (est.1987). read more
Description: 8vo, blind stamped brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Pp 712, with decorated endpapers, frontispiece and four illustrations. No date is given; probably 1920s or 30s. read more
"The volume (as they are published in English-language versions) is part 2 of Dumas' epic Musketeer's tale. This volume finds D'artagnon, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis twenty years older, but wiser, and certainly just as daring as ever. This time their deeply buried in the complexities of the Fronde and intrigues involving the queen mother, Cardinal Mazarin, the embattled king of England, etc. A fun, smart adventure that shows Dumas at the height of his considerable powers.
Is Dumas a great writer in the technical sense? No, not really; he continually relies on convenient plot devises and his dialog can careen between the wooden and the grandiose. What he brings is a keen eye for meaningful action, character development, and human emotion. He is also a master at integrating his (nearly) fictional characters into the great sweep of European history. Again, he's not a technical wizard, but he writes great stories that just get better with time."
"I liked The Three Musketeers better, but this was no disappointment; I adore the characters. My only real frustration was that it took so long to get the four of them together.
I kept getting my princes mixed up, and then Condi, Conte and Gondy, and it doesn't help that I read Queen Margot earlier this year and the books have characters with the same family names. But name confusion on the reader's behalf is standard for Dumas, at least for me.
One of my favorite quotes was d'Artagnan's description of England, a place he detests, and not only for the beer people drink instead of proper, gentlemanly wine:
". . . this blackguard country, where it is always cold, where fine weather is mist, mist is rain, the rain a deluge; where the sun resembles the moon, and the moon cheese à la crème.""
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