Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

"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 threatens to send Charles I to the scaffold. Dumas brings his immortal quartet out of retirement to cross swords with time, the malevolence of men, and the forces of history. But their greatest test is a titanic struggle with the son of Milady, who wears the face of evil. In his introduction to this edition, David Coward sets both the author and his exciting tale in their historical and cultural contexts. Coward has translated Dumas fils' "La Dame aux Camelias", and two selections from Guy de Maupassant: "A Day in the Country and Other Stories" and "Mademoiselle Fifi and Other Stories". He has also edited Alexandre Dumas' "The Count of Monte Cristo", "The Three Musketeers", "The Man in the Iron Mask" and "The Black Tulip".

Alexandre Dumas was born July 24, 1802, at Villiers-Cotterets, France, the son of Napoleon's famous mulatto general, Dumas. Alexandre Dumas began writing at an early age and saw his first success in a play he wrote entitled Henri III et sa Cour (1829). A prolific author, Dumas was also an adventurer and took part in the Revolution of 1830. Dumas is most famous for his brilliant historical novels, which he wrote with collaborators, mainly Auguste Maquet, and which were serialized in the popular press of the day. His most popular works are The Three Musketeers(1844), The Count of Monte Cristo (1844-45), and The Man in Iron Mask (1848-50). Dumas made and lost several fortunes, and died penniless on on December 5, 1870.
Joachim Neugroschel has won three PEN translation awards and the French-American translation prize. He has also translated Thomas Mann's Death in Venice and Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs, both for Penguin Classics. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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ISBN 13	9780192830746
ISBN 10	0192830740
Title	Twenty Years After
Author	Alexandre Dumas
Series	World's Classics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	1993-07-01
Number of pages	872
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