The Man in the Iron Mask (Penguin Classics)
by Alexandre Dumas père
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Author: Alexandre Dumas pèreTranslator: Joachim Neugroschel
Introduction: Francine Du Plessix-Gray
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-03-25
ISBN: 0140439242
Number of pages: 496
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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- ISBN13: 9780140439243
- Condition: New
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Book Review: The Man in the Iron Mask is a Swashbucking Classic Romance by the prolific Alexandre Dumas pere
Summary: 5 Stars
The Penguin edition of "The Man in the Iron Mask" is taken from the larger novel "Vicomte de Bragelonne" about the son of the famous musketeer Aramis. Dumas wrote countless potboilers for French periodicals but a few of his works have become immortal. This is especially true of the trilogy of French muskeeters during the reigns of Louis XIII and Louis XIV. The novels are all episodic making the varous plots sometimes hard to follow. While the works are set in a romantic historical time they are fictional. Dumas used history as a repository of stories to pluck out of them his historical romances. These novels were popular at the same time as were the romantic thrillers of Victor Hugo and Sir Walter Scott.
The Man in the Iron Mask is the final book in the Musketeer trilogy. The other books are "The Three Musketeers" and "Twenty Years After." In this novel we meet the aged musketeers who earlier proclaimed, "One for All and All for One!". The musketeers are:
1. D'Artagnen the leader of the musketeers serving under Louis XIV. This great fictional hero will become an antagonist to his three old musketeer pals. They have decided to support Phillip )the fictional twin of Louis XIV) who has been a prisoner in the Bastille for many years. The plot will fail and the musketeers will have to flee for their lives. As this novel ends we experience the death of D"Artagnan in battle. All of the other musketeers also die in this series finale.
2. Athos-Now a wealthy landowner his son Vicomte de Bragelonne is in love with a beautiful girl who has become the mistress of Louis XIV. The son dies in battle and Athos dies of a broken heart.
3. Aramis-He is a powerful Jesuit official who seeks to wrest the throne of France from Louis XIV. He persuades Prince Phillip to join him in the plot. As the novel ends he dies after having fled to Spain and become a well respected diplomat for that nation.
4. Porthos-The fat Falstaff of the musketeer quartet he too dies after being trapped in a cave by soldiers of the king. He is the most foolish and lovable of the musketeers.
Don't read Dumas for historical truth but do read him for the man's love of friendship and honor in a vanished seventeenth century world.
Summary of The Man in the Iron Mask (Penguin Classics)
In the Musketeers? final adventure, D?Artagnan remains in the service of the corrupt King Louis XIV after the Three Musketeers have retired and gone their separate ways. Meanwhile, a mysterious prisoner in an iron mask wastes away deep inside the Bastille. When the destinies of king and prisoner converge, the Three Musketeers and D?Artagnan find themselves caught between conflicting loyalties.
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