num_pages: 880
description: Two decades have passed since the famous swordsmen triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady in The Three Musketeers . Time has weakened their resolve, and dispersed their loyalties. But treasons and strategems still cry out for civil war endangers the throne of France, while inEngland, 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 the titanic struggle with the son of Milady who wears the face of evil.
language: English
title: Twenty Years After
titlecomplete: Twenty Years After
characters: Cardinal Mazarino, Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland, Oliver Cromwell, Porthos, D'Artagnan, Aramis, Athos, Anne of Austria
genres: Fiction, 19th Century, French Literature, Classics, France, Historical, Historical Fiction, Literature, Adventure, Novels
ratings_count: 23414
places: France
series: The d’Artagnan Romances
publisher: Oxford University Press