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When Twenty Years After opens it is 1648: the Red Sphinx, Cardinal Richelieu, is dead, France is ruled by a regency in the grip of civil war, and across the English Channel the monarchy of King Charles I hangs by a thread. As d’Artagnan will find, these are problems that can’t be solved with a sword thrust. In Twenty Years After, the musketeers confront maturity and face its greatest challenge: sometimes, you fail. It’s in how the four comrades respond to failure, and rise above it, that we begin to see the true characters of Dumas’s great heroes.

The four dauntless comrades in arms from The Three Musketeers and The Man in the Iron Mask are reunited in this extraordinary tale. Dumas brilliantly weaves the story into the tapestry of both French and English history. In Paris the four protect Queen Anne and the young Louis XIV from swelling revolution. In England they take on the ambitious Oliver Cromwell. Once again we are treated to the ring of swords, hearts are won or lost, and revenge is sweet.

ДВАДЦАТЬ ТЫСЯЧ ЛЬЕ ПОД ВОДОЙ [1869] - один из самых известных романов популярного французского писателя Жюля Верна - рассказывает о невероятном кругосветном путешествии в морских глубинах на фантастической подводной лодке "Наутилус".

Twenty years later, time has weakened the resolve of the Musketeers 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.

De la vasta producción literaria del genial Julio Verne, 20.000 leguas de viaje submarino constituye uno de sus puntos más altos, fruto de una expresividad sin igual para narrar una aventura atrapante de principio a fin. El biólogo francés Pierre Aronnax y su criado, a bordo de una expedición, sufren los embates de un extraordinario monstruo marino que los arroja por la borda del buque, y si bien son rescatados en una primera instancia, quedarán prisioneros del Capitán Nemo, siendo conducidos por los océanos a bordo del submarino Nautilus.