The Vicomte de Bragelonne

Ten Years After

De: Alexandre Dumas

Narrado por: Simon Vance

It is May 1660 and the fate of nations is at stake. Mazarin plots, Louis XIV is in love, and Raoul de Bragelonne, son of Athos, is intent on serving France and winning the heart of Louise de la Valliere.

D'Artagnan, meanwhile, is perplexed by a mysterious stranger, and soon he learns that his old comrades already have great projects in hand. Athos seeks the restoration of Charles II, while Aramis, with Porthos in tow, has a secret plan involving a masked prisoner and the fortification of the island of Belle-Ile.

D'Artagnan finds a thread leading him to the French court, the banks of the Tyne, the beaches of Holland, and the dunes of Brittany.

Public Domain (P)2009 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Alternately melodramatic, sentimental, humorous, wordly, and almost always absorbing." ( Irish Times)
"I would sit down with The Vicomte de Bragelonne for a long, silent, solitary, lamplit evening by the fire." (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Amazing story. Captivating, intriguing

I wish I had discovered these novels earlier in life. The characters lend lessons to even modern life. The plots twist, surprise and rend the heart.

Beware the 10 yrs after is after the 20 yrs after

What did you love best about The Vicomte de Bragelonne?

The way Alexandre Dumas wove characters in this series together.

Who was your favorite character and why?

D'Artagnan is always my favorite character. He's a bit impulsive.

Which character – as performed by Simon Vance – was your favorite?

D'Artagnan.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

When D'Artagnan & Raoul (The Vicomt) fought together against the uprising.

Any additional comments?

I wanted to read the four Dumas novels in sequence. I naturally thought 10 years after was the second in the series. It was the third.

great book

great narrator read this book very well. this was a great finish to the D'Artagnan's romances and I am looking forward to seeing what will happen next in the last two book in this series.

Political

This book is filled with political entries of the royal court. It lacks the swashbuckle of previous Dumas writings about our heroes. The story bemoans times seeming
different time, as this book reflects a different time, but same Dumas style.

A very anglicized performance of a French masterpiece

The story is 5 stars without question, otherwise I wouldn't have gone down this far in the series.

But the performance, I prefer John Lee's enactment. So many narrators have done the famous titles in this series, Three Musketeers and Man in the Iron Mask, but only very few have done these middle books, John Lee and Simon Vance are about the only ones. Having listened to every book up to Between to Kings performed by John Lee, I find Simon Vance's missing the French integrity due to these books. John Lee pronounces the characters' names in French, as close as he could get to the right pronunciation (I studied French). This production has chosen to anglicize the names (I mean, the pronunciation of the title Bragelonne is wrong, like, come on, that was a huge turn off), as well as the accent - D'Artagnan's accent here is the equivalent of a working class person in England. I find that a completely different flavor and doesn't sound quite right to transplant from one country's setting to another.

The quality of the performance, too, John Lee's reflected more of the courage and magnificent commanding of the captain of the musketeers, the sincere personality of Athos, and a deeper reflection of the other characters' personalities. Simon Vance's feels a bit less.

I would have bought John Lee's recording of this book, but he didn't make one for Lawrence Elsworth's translations after Between Two Kings, which is the first half of this book, Vicomte de Bragelonne.