The Musketeers--Twenty Years Later de Alexandre Dumas

The Musketeers--Twenty Years Later

Alexandre Dumas

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 feb 2001

Twenty years after the events of The Three Musketeers, the intrepid quartet--Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and D'Artagnan--return in an attempt to save King Charles I from the axe of General Oliver Cromwell. But Cromwell is being helped by Mordaunt, son of Milady de Winter (whom the Musketeers had executed twenty years before), and he uses his position as the General's secretary to gain his revenge. Now only the Musketeers remain. Can they escape Mordaunt's diabolical plans?

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Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870) was a French writer. His works have been translated into nearly 100 languages and he is one of the most widely read French authors. Many of his historical novels of high adventure were originally published as serials, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later. His novels have been adapted since the early twentieth century for nearly 200 films. Dumas' last novel, The Knight of Sainte-Hermine, unfinished at his death, was completed by a scholar and published in 2005, becoming a bestseller. It was published in English in 2008 as The Last Cavalier. Prolific in several genres, Dumas began his career by writing plays, which were successfully produced from the first. He also wrote numerous magazine articles and travel books; his published works totaled 100,000 pages.