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: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 10/22/1998
ISBN-13:9780192838438ISBN:0192838431
Description: Fair. 0192838431 Unused overstock copy with moderate wear to edges from shelving. May have a remainder mark. Front cover and first several pages have 1-2 tears less than an inch in length. read more
Edition: Later Edition
Binding: Flexible Leather
Publisher: Thomas Nelson, New York, NY [No date]
Description: Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall Used In flexible green leather with gilt spine titling, 8vo, 794pp (wear and rubbing to extremities, spine and edges, light chipping to tips, cover leather peeling from stiff covers). read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: M. A. Donohue & Co, Chicago
Description: Fair. No dust jacket. binding is touchy due to age first few pages have pulled away from binding but remain in the book shelf wear bumped corners. 542p., ill., 19 cm. read more
Description: Good. ---383 pages. Interior is clean. Front hinge is cracked. Nice overall condition. -Publish Place: Chicago-Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Heritage Press, New York
Date Published: 1958
Description: Edy Legrand. Good in Slipcase jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Book shows light to moderate wear/ spine tight, pages clean/ spine cover shows moderate wear/ slipcase shows heavy wear, but still servicable read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thomas Crowell Co., New York/Boston
Description: Poor. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Flyleafs missing. Some writing inside cover and on title page. Discolored covers with edge and corner wear. Dirty edges. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Heritage
Date Published: 1958
Description: Edy LeGrand. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. 496 p. Includes illustrations. Yellow cloth binding with fleur-de-lis decorations. Bookplate from previous owner on first free endpage. No other marks. Relevant issue of Sandglass included. No slipcover. read more
Description: Good. Format: Hardcover. Year: 1910. Illustrated Hardcover Book. No Jacket. Ex-library with usual markings. Pages are a little yellowed but clean. read more
Edition: Edition Unstated
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780192838438ISBN:0192838431
Description: Very Good- As issued No Jacket. Slight spine curl, corner bumps, pages age toned, handling creases to both covers, and other light to moderate shopwear. Sequel to Dumas' beloved Three Musketeers. read more
Description: [date not indicated]. (Hardcover)...Near very good, no dust jacket.......Ex-library with usual markings....Introduction by R. Brimley Johnson....(Historical Fiction) read more
Edition: First Edition Thus
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Heritage Press
Date Published: 1958
Description: VG. (DJ Not Issued) Illustrator: Legrand, Edy.496pp. DESCRIPTION: Appears unread. Includes 'Sandglass' insert. No slipcase. Previous owner nameplate. Book and pages clean, binding tight, light wear to spine end, negligable corner wear. Pic available upon request. 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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