![]() ![]() But these are mature adults, not carefree young men. Don’t get me wrong-there still is plenty of action in Twenty Years After: Desperate chases, daring escapes, hairbreadth failures and the evilest of villains, set against a backdrop of political intrigue and conflicting loyalties. ![]() It would have been easy for Dumas to follow up the success of the original book by simply carrying on the swashbuckling adventures of d’Artagnan, Athos, Aramis and Porthos, but the author was more interested in the development of his characters and the times in which they lived than simply continuing the action. That’s the theme of Twenty Years After, Alexandre Dumas’s sequel to The Three Musketeers. And when you do, it’s never quite the same. Anyone old enough to have friends they haven’t seen for many years knows how difficult it can be to get everyone together again. ![]()
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