On Alexandre Dumas' 20 Years After

I recently finished Alexandre Dumas' 20 Years After, the 1845 sequel to The Three Musketeers. It takes place during the Fronde in France and the English Civil War--that is, during a time when the world is violently polarized, like now.  In fact, the 4 musketeers end up on opposite sides of the same conflicts: D'artagnan and Porthos with the Cardinal, Aramis and Athos with the Frondists--only to ironically switch around in England, with D'artagnan and Porthos on the side of the Republicans, and Aramis and Athos with the Royalists. Yet they all 4 still remain best friends--that still feels like a very relevant lesson today.

I'd first read Three Musketeers 6 years ago, but I really felt like I needed to read 20 Years After in 2016.