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Twenty Years After

By: Alexandre Dumas
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
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Originally published in 1845 as a sequel to The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After is a supreme creation of suspense and heroic adventure.

Two decades have passed since the three musketeers triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady. Time has weakened their resolve and dispersed their loyalties. But treasons and stratagems still cry out for justice: civil war endangers the throne of France, while in England, 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 a titanic struggle with the son of Milady, who wears the face of Evil.

(P)1997 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Action & Adventure Classics European Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Literary History & Criticism World Literature Fiction War
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“Good fun!”

(Sunday Telegraph (London))

“Dumas never stints the action, witty dialogue, and surprising plot developments. As gradually grows clear, his overriding theme is loyalty—to friends, family and party but, above all, to living by a principled code of honor in a debased and chaotic world. If you only know The Three Musketeers, you owe yourself the pleasure of spending some happy evenings with Twenty Years After. Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and D’Artagnan may be older and their hair starting to gray, but they’ve lost none of their romance and grandeur.”

(Washington Post)
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The intonations are all wrong and every sentence sounds like an awkward question! I simply can't understand how this was released. I have never heard a worse performance of an audio book. Paterson Joseph did an amazing job of the first book and by comparison this is terrible. He should definitely be brought back in to rerecord this book. Unfortunately this is the only full version of Twenty Years After on Audible so there's little choice

Great story, AWFUL reading

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Was that I wanted to emphasisze my great pleasure in hearing the best narration I have, to yet, ever heard. The accents fitted the characters. How this level of expertise and talent were maintained throughout the story is well worth comment, it added to an already good tale in a terrific read. Thanks, Colin B

The only reason that it was not all five stars

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Brilliant story, as usual. So much more than the film and TV shows.
Narrator did get sounds to different people later on OK but certainly for me doesn’t approach that of Bill Holmeood who took me to France, this one I still felt looking from outside as the accent though much more understood, felt too much local(England).

Keeps the excitement of the first two books

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A very good book although the narrator sometimes sounds like he is giving a lecture and his choice of voices for some of the characters were just wrong.

A gripping adventure! A worthy sequel!

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I grew up watching the movies and I loved them but they pale wren compared to the book read them you will not be sorry.

A lot better than film

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