This shelf
- Books in the series
- 2
- Total words
- 468,216
- Reading time
- 26.0 h
The d’Artagnan Romances are three novels, not one: The Three Musketeers (1844), Twenty Years After (1845) and The Vicomte de Bragelonne (1847–1850), which is itself usually split into three or four volumes. editions.ink currently carries the first two.
The Three Musketeers is the adventure of four young men against Richelieu; Twenty Years After picks up the same four in middle age, during the Fronde, and is a darker and more political book. Reading them in order is the way Dumas published them, and the second assumes you know the first.
The d’Artagnan Romances in reading order
Numbered by first publication. Word counts are estimates from the text.
| Year | Title | Words | Reading time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1844 | The Three Musketeers | 226,061 | ~13 h |
| 1845 | Twenty Years After | 242,155 | ~13 h |
Where to begin
Start with The Three Musketeers; it is the shorter of the two and introduces every character the sequel depends on. Twenty Years After is longer and slower, and it expects you to care about the four men before it puts them in middle age.
Questions readers ask
How many d’Artagnan novels are on editions.ink?
Two of the three: The Three Musketeers (1844) and Twenty Years After (1845), about 468,216 words together, or roughly 26 hours of reading.
Where is The Vicomte de Bragelonne?
It is the third novel of the sequence, published between 1847 and 1850, and it is not on the site yet. The page will list it when the edition is ready.
Do I need to read them in order?
Yes for these two. The second book opens with the four friends scattered and assumes you know how they met and what they did.
Are these complete texts?
Yes. Each edition contains the complete novel, with the chapter guide and historical note on the book page, in EPUB, AZW3 and KEPUB.
Part of the Alexandre Dumas page and the adventure and sea stories shelf. Every book page carries the full text plus EPUB, AZW3 and KEPUB downloads.