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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.

Public Domain (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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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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If you've read The Three Musketeers you will be aware that unlike the films the Heros of this book are not entirely the paragons you might expect them to be. This sequel keeps that up for pretty much all of them and now the queen is as unpleasant in this book as she was unfaithful in the first. This book is however an interesting history of the time it portrays but again from the point of view that pretty much all the historical figures involved are cynical, corrupt and in it entirely for them selves.
All the same the adventure is an exciting and compelling one and history around which the story is built is interesting.

More of the same really

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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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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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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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The source book is great if you life Dumas and a necessary third part of the D'Artagnan series of stories. Why Simon Vance has done all the others and not this one is a mystery to me. The narrator on this is just not up to it. Annoying vocal tics (e.g. raising tone at the end of every sentence and inappropriate lilting) make it impossible to listen to after Vance. Comparisons are odious and perhaps if we had not heard the SV recording of "The Three Musketeers" we might have been able to bear it. But sorry Mr Davidson, and I hate criticizing someone who put this much work into something, but this is a very disappointing rendition of great material.

After Simon Vance on others this is disappointing

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Translation of the French less than perfect and the reading is very stilted like a constipated John Gielgud. To be read a a curiosity.

strange anachronistic book full of bizarre justifications of nobility, aristocracy and honour.

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I had listened to the preceding book easily (narrated by Bill Homewood), but this narrator seems intent to fly through dialogue at such a fast pace that it was a struggle to have a lasting impression of conversation between characters.
As such, I gave up on the book after 2 chapters.

I did not like the Narrator

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