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,
Sequel to Drum-Taps to Drum-Taps" and bore the subtitle "When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom'd and other poems". The title poem, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd", filled the first nine pages. In October, after the pamphlet was printed, Whitman travelled to Brooklyn to collate and bind them into copies of "Drum-Taps". Whitman added the poems from "Drum-Taps" and "Sequel to Drum-Taps" as a supplement to the fourth edition of Leaves of Grass printed in 1867 by William E. Chapin. The collection consisted of 18 poems, in the following order: Sequel to Drum-Taps Sequel to Drum-Taps, subtitled When Lilacs Last in