The Man in the Iron Mask

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Pub. Date: 2003-03-25
Publisher(s): Penguin Classics
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Summary

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. Introduction by Francine du Plessix Gray Translated by Joachim Neugroschel

Author Biography

Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) was the author of more than ninety plays and many novels--most famously the Three Musketeers trilogy and The Count of Monte Cristo.

Francine du Plessix Gray is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-finalist At Home with the Marquis de Sade, among other works.

Joachim Neugroschel has won three PEN translation awards and the French-American translation prize.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii
Francine Du Plessix Gray
The Man in the Iron Mask
The Prisoner
3(26)
How Mouston Had Gained Weight Without Warning Porthos, and How This Spelled Trouble for This Worthy Nobleman
29(8)
Who and What Master Jean Percerin Was
37(7)
The Swatches
44(9)
Where Moliere Might Have Drawn His Inspiration for The Burgher As Aristocrat
53(6)
The Hive, the Bees, and the Honey
59(10)
Another Supper at the Bastille
69(7)
The General of the Order
76(9)
The Tempter
85(7)
Crown and Tiara
92(8)
The Castle of Vaux-le-Vicomte
100(4)
The Wine of Melun
104(5)
Nectar and Ambrosia
109(4)
For a Gascon and a Gascon and a Half
113(11)
Colbert
124(6)
Jealousy
130(5)
Lese-Majeste
135(9)
A Night in the Bastille
144(5)
Monsieur Fouquet's Shadow
149(14)
Morning
163(8)
The King's Friend
171(15)
How Orders Were Respected in the Bastille
186(7)
The King's Gratitude
193(8)
The False King
201(10)
Porthos Believes He Is Pursuing a Dukedom
211(5)
The Final Farewells
216(5)
The Duke de Beaufort
221(7)
Preparations for Departure
228(8)
Planchet's Inventory
236(6)
The Duke de Beaufort's Inventory
242(6)
The Silver Plate
248(7)
Captive and Jailers
255(9)
Promises
264(11)
Among Women
275(8)
The Last Supper
283(7)
Monsieur Colbert's Coach
290(7)
The Two Lighters
297(7)
Friendly Advice
304(5)
How King Louis XIV Played His Little Part
309(9)
The White Horse and the Black Horse
318(7)
In Which the Squirrel Falls, in Which the Adder Flies
325(9)
Belle-Ile-en-Mer
334(9)
Aramis's Explanation
343(10)
The Results of the King's Plans and d'Artagnan's Plans
353(3)
Porthos's Forbears
356(4)
Biscarrat's Son
360(5)
The Grotto of Locmaria
365(6)
The Grotto
371(8)
A Homeric Chant
379(5)
The Death of a Titan
384(5)
Porthos's Epitaph
389(7)
The Duke de Gesvres's Rounds
396(5)
King Louis XIV
401(8)
Monsieur Fouquet's Friends
409(6)
Porthos's Will
415(6)
Athos's Old Age
421(5)
Athos's Vision
426(5)
The Angel of Death
431(5)
Bulletin
436(5)
The Final Canto of the Epic
441(6)
Epilogue 447

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