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Read Vingt ans après in Frenchwith every sentence explained
English title: Twenty Years After
Alexandre Dumas · 1845
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About the book
Vingt ans après by Alexandre Dumas was first published in 1845. In Passage you read the full text in the original French, marked advanced and filed under historical fiction and thriller and suspense. It runs to about 281,800 words.
The musketeers are older. The danger is greater. And this time, they are not all on the same side.
It is 1648, and Paris is boiling. Cardinal Mazarin, hated by the people, rules France in the name of Queen Anne of Austria and the boy king Louis XIV, while the rebellion of the Fronde spreads through the streets.
D'Artagnan, still a lieutenant after twenty years of loyal service, is bored and poor. When Mazarin needs brave men, the Gascon sets out to find his old companions: Athos, Porthos and Aramis. But the friends have changed, and loyalties have split. Meanwhile, a cold young man named Mordaunt is hunting for revenge, and across the Channel, the throne of King Charles I of England is shaking.
Twenty Years After is Alexandre Dumas's thrilling sequel to The Three Musketeers: sword fights, escapes, humour and a moving tribute to friendship.
- Author
- Alexandre Dumas
- First published
- 1845
- Language
- French
- Level
- Advanced
- Genre
- Historical Fiction, Thriller and Suspense
- Length
- About 281,800 words
How it opens
Dans une chambre du palais Cardinal que nous connaissons déjà, près d'une table à coins de vermeil, chargée de papiers et de livres, un homme était assis la tête appuyée dans ses deux mains.
Derrière lui était une vaste cheminée, rouge de feu, et dont les tisons enflammés s'écroulaient sur de larges chenets dorés. La lueur de ce foyer éclairait par-derrière le vêtement magnifique de ce rêveur, que la lumière d'un candélabre chargé de bougies éclairait par-devant.
Reading Vingt ans après in Passage
Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in French. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:
- a natural translation of that exact sentence,
- a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
- the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
- all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.
It's marked advanced, with richer vocabulary and longer sentences. If it feels heavy, start with an intermediate French book and come back to it. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.
