Twenty Years After Dumas comes out on the side of the monarchy in general, or at least the text often praises the "idea" of benevolent royalty. His musketeers are valiant and just in their efforts to protect young Louis XIV and the doomed Charles I from their attackers. The action begins during the regency of Queen Anne of Austria (term 1643–1651), with Cardinal Mazarin as First Minister. D'Artagnan, who seemed to have a promising career ahead of him at the end of "The Three Musketeers", has for twenty years remained a lieutenant, and seems unlikely to progress despite his ambition and the debt
Other Voices, Other Rooms (novel) Triangle in 1999. More than fifty years after its publication, Anthony Slide notes that "Other Voices, Other Rooms" is one of only four familiar gay novels of the first half of the 20th century. The other three novels are Djuna Barnes' "Nightwood", Carson McCullers' "Reflections in a Golden Eye", and Gore Vidal's "The City and the Pillar". When "Other Voices, Other Rooms" was published in 1948, it stayed on The New York Times Bestseller list for nine weeks, selling more than 26,000 copies. The promotion and controversy surrounding this novel catapulted Capote to fame. A 1947 Harold Halma photograph, used