Twenty Years After
Musketeer Adventure Amid Fronde Intrigue, Civil War, and the Test of Friendship, Loyalty, and HonorBy Alexandre Dumas
Length29h 7m
About this audiobook
Alexandre Dumas's *Twenty Years After* revisits the heroes of *The Three Musketeers* amid the political turbulence of seventeenth-century France, where the Fronde, royal authority, and the waning influence of Cardinal Mazarin create a landscape of shifting loyalties. Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and d'Artagnan are older, more politically conscious, and divided by competing ideals, yet their fellowship remains the novel's emotional center. Combining historical fiction with adventure romance, Dumas employs rapid pacing, vivid dialogue, intrigue, disguise, imprisonment, and spectacular reversals. Its episodic, serialized structure and theatrical energy exemplify the nineteenth-century popular novel, while its treatment of rebellion and power gives the narrative greater political complexity than its predecessor. Dumas, one of France's most celebrated Romantic writers, transformed historical research into expansive narratives that brought the past before a mass readership. His fascination with revolution, heroic individualism, and contested authority was shaped partly by the political atmosphere of post-Revolutionary France and by his family's military and republican legacy. Written with the collaboration of Auguste Maquet, the novel reflects Dumas's characteristic ability to fuse archival history with imaginative invention and memorable characterization. Readers interested in historical fiction, political adventure, and the development of the modern serialized novel will find *Twenty Years After* especially rewarding. It can be read as an exhilarating continuation of a beloved saga, but also as a meditation on aging, loyalty, and the compromises demanded by political life. Dumas's narrative momentum makes its considerable length highly accessible.
Audiobook details
GenreHistorical Fiction, Action and Adventure
Length29 hrs 7 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 14, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Adventurer's Library: 43 Epic Adventure Novels from Around the World
2Chapter 1 The Shade of Cardinal Richelieu.
3Chapter 2 A Nightly Patrol.
4Chapter 3 Dead Animosities.
5Chapter 4 Anne of Austria at the Age of Forty-six.
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6Chapter 5 The Gascon and the Italian.
7Chapter 6 D’Artagnan in his Fortieth Year.
8Chapter 7 Touches upon the Strange Effects a Half-pistole may have upon a Beadle and a Chorister.
9Chapter 8 How D’Artagnan, on going to a Distance to discover Aramis, discovers his old Friend on Horseback behind his own Planchet.
10Chapter 9 The Abbe D’Herblay.
11Chapter 10 Monsieur Porthos du Vallon de Bracieux de Pierrefonds.
12Chapter 11 How D’Artagnan, in discovering the Retreat of Porthos, perceives that Wealth does not necessarily produce Happiness.
13Chapter 12 In which it is shown that if Porthos was discontented with his Condition, Mousqueton was completely satisfied with his.
14Chapter 13 Two Angelic Faces.
15Chapter 14 The Castle of Bragelonne.
16Chapter 15 Athos as a Diplomatist.
17Chapter 16 The Duc de Beaufort.
18Chapter 17 Describes how the Duc de Beaufort amused his Leisure Hours in the Donjon of Vincennes.
19Chapter 18 Grimaud begins his Functions.
20Chapter 19 In which the Contents of the Pates made by the Successor of Father Marteau are described.
21Chapter 20 One of Marie Michon’s Adventures.
22Chapter 21 The Abbe Scarron.
23Chapter 22 Saint Denis.
24Chapter 23 One of the Forty Methods of Escape of the Duc de Beaufort.
25Chapter 24 The timely Arrival of D’Artagnan in Paris.
26Chapter 25 An Adventure on the High Road.
27Chapter 26 The Rencontre.
28Chapter 27 The four old Friends prepare to meet again.
29Chapter 28 The Place Royale.
30Chapter 29 The Ferry across the Oise.
31Chapter 30 Skirmishing.
32Chapter 31 The Monk.
33Chapter 32 The Absolution.
34Chapter 33 Grimaud Speaks.
35Chapter 34 On the Eve of Battle.
36Chapter 35 A Dinner in the Old Style.
37Chapter 36 A Letter from Charles the First.
38Chapter 37 Cromwell’s Letter.
39Chapter 38 Henrietta Maria and Mazarin.
40Chapter 39 How, sometimes, the Unhappy mistake Chance for Providence.
41Chapter 40 Uncle and Nephew.
42Chapter 41 Paternal Affection.
43Chapter 42 Another Queen in Want of Help.
44Chapter 43 In which it is proved that first Impulses are oftentimes the best.
45Chapter 44 Te Deum for the Victory of Lens.
46Chapter 45 The Beggar of St. Eustache.
47Chapter 46 The Tower of St. Jacques de la Boucherie.
48Chapter 47 The Riot.
49Chapter 48 The Riot becomes a Revolution.
50Chapter 49 Misfortune refreshes the Memory.
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