Twenty Years After

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins

Publisher's summary

A new translation of Dumas’s rousing sequel to The Three Musketeers, picking up 20 years after the conclusion of that classic novel and continuing the adventures of the valiant d’Artagnan and his three loyal friends

The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas’s most famous and enduring novel, completed its serial publication in the summer of 1844, and by the time of its book publication at the end of that year, readers were already demanding a sequel. They got it starting in January 1845, when the first chapters of Twenty Years After began to appear - but it wasn’t quite what they were expecting.

When Twenty Years After opens it is 1648: the Red Sphinx, Cardinal Richelieu, is dead, France is ruled by a regency in the grip of civil war, and across the English Channel the monarchy of King Charles I hangs by a thread. As d’Artagnan will find, these are problems that can’t be solved with a sword thrust. In Twenty Years After, the musketeers confront maturity and face its greatest challenge: sometimes, you fail. It’s in how the four comrades respond to failure, and rise above it, that we begin to see the true characters of Dumas’s great heroes.

A true literary achievement, Twenty Years After is long overdue for a modern reassessment - and a new translation. As an added inducement, Lawrence Ellsworth has discovered a “lost” chapter that was overlooked in the novel’s original publication, and is included in none of the available English translations to date - until now.

©2019 Translation and original material copyright by Lawrence Schick (P)2019 Blackstone Publishing

Awesome narrator!

Wonderful performance and novel. I could only wish John Lee would perform all of the works of Dumas. This is my third. The others were equally great!

An excellent sequel

After enjoying the Three Musketeers I was excited to start on this one. I think I might even like it better. The narrator did an excellent job.
Highly recommended!

Not complete

Great recording! But it is not complete. It ends half way through which is a real bummer.

Not the Complete Book!!!

I love this book and tell it abruptly ended 2/3 of the way through the story. According to other sources this book should includes two more acts.

Brilliant, intriguing, Heroic

I loved this as much if not more than The 3 Musketeers. The intrigue is ratcheted up with the civil unrest in the background. Every chapter is so much fun!

Good follow up to the great Original

Sets up a new villain well. Story drags at a couple parts but overall very enjoyable. Performance is top notch,

Hours of story that goes nowhere

Waste of time! Not entertaining. Not worth my time let alone my money. This was a money grab by a poor author past his prime.

unfinished

this is only half the book in sept 2020 audible doesn't have the other half

Incomplete

The narration is good but this version ends in the middle of the book. Very disappointing.

A strong read split for no reason

I have loved the D'Artagnan Musketeer series since I first found them, so this story is a nice addition to the more popular Three Musketeers. The narrator has a cadence that I found a little distracting at first with strong pauses and random inflections that remind me a bit of William Shatner, though not as exaggerated. I grew used to these or the narrator toned them back a little but I found that there would occasionally be a drop in audio levels, either through a fault in my phone or in the recording. All in all, a great addition to the collection of anyone that enjoys the works of Dumas with the exception of it being split in to two parts with the only explanation being to force you to purchase the same book twice. Until another narrator of note takes up the book though, this is the only version of quality on Audible.