Twenty Years After is a historical adventure novel and the sequel to The Three Musketeers, returning to D’Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis two decades after their first exploits. Alexandre Dumas sets the story amid political conflict in seventeenth-century France and England, where old loyalties, personal ambition, royal power, and friendship are tested against a changed world. This Everyman’s Library edition presents the novel as classic historical fiction, combining swordplay, intrigue, court politics, and character-driven adventure, while asking what remains of youthful courage when the heroes are older, divided by circumstance, and drawn again into danger.
Author: Alexandre Dumas
Publisher: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc.
Publication year: 1930
Number of pages: 751
Original language: French
Original title: Vingt ans après