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Twenty Years After
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Paperback Oxford Worlds Classics English
By (author) Alexandre Dumas , Edited by David Coward


Twenty Years After (1845), the sequel to The Three Musketeers, is a supreme creation of suspense and heroic adventure.

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.
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Product details

Format Paperback | 880 pages
Dimensions 130 x 198 x 39mm | 593g
Publication date 15 Apr 2009
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom
Language English
Edition Statement Reissue
Illustrations note 1 map
ISBN10 0199537267
ISBN13 9780199537266
Bestsellers rank 116,922