Twenty Years After Twenty Years After Twenty Years After () is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, first serialized from January to August 1845. A book of "The d'Artagnan Romances", it is a sequel to "The Three Musketeers" and precedes "The Vicomte de Bragelonne" (which includes the sub-plot "Man in the Iron Mask"). The novel follows events in France during the Fronde, during the childhood reign of Louis XIV, and in England near the end of the English Civil War, leading up to the victory of Oliver Cromwell and the execution of King Charles I. Through the words of the main characters, particularly Athos,
Twenty Years a Dream Twenty Years a Dream "Twenty Years a Dream" () is a short story written by Chinese author Pu Songling in "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" (1740). One of the earlier entries in the collection, it revolves around a bachelor's romantic relations with a female ghost. The story was favourably received by literary critics. Yang Yuwei (), a bachelor who resides in a derelict apartment next to a cemetery, is visited by a female ghost one night. She introduces herself as Locket (连琐), a Gansu local who died of sickness in her teenage years some twenty years ago, and is