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Ten Years Later

Alexandre Dumas

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  • Book language: English
  • 814 pages

An adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, part of the d'Artagnan Romances, continuing after Twenty Years After. It follows d'Artagnan and his companions in later years amid courtly intrigue and political turmoil in France. It is worth listening to for its vivid historical setting and lively adventure.

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Ten Years Later
by Alexandre Dumas, Père

PROJECT GUTENBERG

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:

The Vicomte de Bragelonne is the final volume of

D’Artagnan Romances: it is usually split into three or four parts, and the final portion is entitled The Man in the Iron

Mask. The Man in the Iron Mask we’re familiar with today is the last volume of the four-volume edition. [Not all the editions split them in the same manner, hence some of the confusion. . .but wait. . .there’s yet more reason for confusion.]

One thing that may be causing confusion is that the etext entitled Ten Years Later, says it’s the sequel to The

Three Musketeers. While this is technically true, there’s another book, Twenty Years After, that comes between.

The confusion is generated by the two facts that many people see those titles as meaning Ten and Twenty

Years “After” the original story . . . however, this is why the different words “After” and “Later” . . . the Ten Years

“After” is ten years after the Twenty Years later. . . as per history. Also, the third book of the D’Artagnan

Romances, while entitled The Vicomte de Bragelonne, has the subtitle Ten Years Later. These two titles are also given to different volumes: The Vicomte de

Bragelonne can refer to the whole book, or the first volume of the three or four-volume editions. Ten Years

Later can, similarly, refer to the whole book, or the second volume of the four-volume edition. Here is a guide to the series which may prove helpful:

The Three Musketeers: Etext 1257 - First book of the

D’Artagnan Romances. Covers the years 1625-1628.

Twenty Years After: Etext 1259 - Second book of the

D’Artagnan Romances. Covers the years 1648-1649.

Ten Years Later: Etext 1258 - First 104 chapters of the third book of the D’Artagnan Romances. Covers the

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Contents

  1. Ten Years Later
  2. PROJECT GUTENBERG TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:
  3. Introduction:
  4. Contents
  5. THE VICOMTE DE BRAGELONNE.
  6. Volume I.
  7. CHAPTER 1. The Letter.
  8. CHAPTER 2. The Messenger.
  9. CHAPTER 3. The Interview.
  10. CHAPTER 4. Father and Son.
  11. CHAPTER 5. In which Something will be said of Cropoli—of Cropoli and of a Great Unknown Painter.
  12. CHAPTER 6. The Unknown.
  13. CHAPTER 7. Parry.
  14. CHAPTER 8. What his Majesty King Louis XIV. was at the Age of Twenty-Two
  15. CHAPTER 9. In which the Unknown of the Hostelry of Les Medici loses his Incognito.
  16. CHAPTER 10. The Arithmetic of M. de Mazarin
  17. CHAPTER 11. Mazarin’s Policy
  18. CHAPTER 12. The King and the Lieutenant
  19. CHAPTER 13. Mary de Mancini
  20. CHAPTER 14. In which the King and the Lieutenant each give Proofs of Memory
  21. CHAPTER 15. The Proscribed
  22. CHAPTER 16. “Remember!”
  23. CHAPTER 17. In which Aramis is sought and only Bazin is found
  24. CHAPTER 18. In which D’Artagnan seeks Porthos, and only finds Mousqueton
  25. CHAPTER 19. What D’Artagnan went to Paris for
  26. CHAPTER 20. Of the Society which was formed in the Rue des Lombards, at the Sign of the Pilon d’Or, to carry out M. d’Ar
  27. CHAPTER 21. In which D’Artagnan prepares to travel for the Firm of Planchet and Company
  28. CHAPTER 22. D’Artagnan travels for the House of Planchet and Company
  29. CHAPTER 23. In which the Author, very unwillingly, is forced to write a Little History
  30. CHAPTER 24. The Treasure

and 81 more chapters

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