The Man In The Iron Mask
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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
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Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I saw and loved the movie so I just had to get the book to compare, books are usually better. The problem is that it doesn’t compare, the tales are really different. That being the case the book was appealing, exciting at some points and a small hard to know because of the era in which it was written. It has small to do with the “man” in the iron mask and it is more an extension of the Three Musketeers.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Don’t be fooled. This is NOT Dumas, it is a rewrite. The target audience seems to be kindergarteners.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This one’s a real curate’s egg. Buy this if you like a excellent past yarn, constant plot development, intrigue and speculation on one of the fantastic periods and what-ifs of any period in any country’s history. It’s a page-turner and lovely if it catches you in the right mood.
Do not buy this if you’re more the sort that doesn’t care so much what happens as how it’s described. Character development is limited and nobody really comes to life in right 3-D, which would have been the building of this novel. On the additional hand some of the intrigue we see is reasonably nicely developed.
I am the sort who likes to have a few books on the go at once and to deliberate over things and savour the status quo at any point, permanently expecting never to re-read (I’m sure you’re tickled at this insight). I must say that menas I’ve tended to hasten to another book from this one and it’s not holding my attention. It reads like a play and would have been better in that format, but by trying to have a main plot and subplot it all reads too cleanly.
If you really like the genre of past novels nothing reasonably beats ‘The Leopard’ by Lampedusa, but it’s more after my likes. I wish this book were really about something, be it “How far it is possible in politics to achieve what you want with a bi of talent and status” but additional books do much better and this doesn’t have such lofty ambitions.
Ultimately, some excellent effects but really unmemorable.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
The Penguin edition of “The Man in the Iron Mask” is taken from the larger novel “Vicomte de Bragelonne” about the son of the legendary musketeer Aramis. Dumas wrote countless potboilers for French periodicals but a few of his works have become immortal. This is especially right of the trilogy of French muskeeters during the reigns of Louis XIII and Louis XIV. The novels are all episodic building the varous plots sometimes hard to follow. While the works are set in a romantic past time they are fictional. Dumas used history as a repository of tales to pluck out of them his past romances. These novels were well loved at the same time as were the romantic thrillers of Champion Hugo and Sir Walter Scott.
The Man in the Iron Mask is the final book in the Musketeer trilogy. The additional 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 fantastic fictional hero will become an antagonist to his three ancient musketeer pals. They have chose 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 additional musketeers also die in this series finale.
2. Athos-Now a wealthy landowner his son Vicomte de Bragelonne is in like with a gorgeous 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 stout 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 past truth but do read him for the man’s like of friendship and honor in a vanished seventeenth century world.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5