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Title: The Man in the Iron Mask
Author: Alexandre Dumas
Narrator: Simon Vance
Format: Unabridged
Length: 22 hrs and 8 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-18-10
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 433 votes
Genres: Classics, European Literature
Publisher's Summary:
Thirty-five years after the events of The Three Musketeers, dArtagnan, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis find themselves caught between conflicting loyalties in a power struggle that could change the face of the French monarchy.
For eight long years, a young prisoner has languished within the dreaded Bastille, his face hidden in an iron mask. He knows neither his true identity nor the crime for which he has been imprisoned. But Aramis knows this secreta secret so dangerous, it could topple the King from his throne! Will his cause divide the once indivisible band of musketeers?
A tale of mystery, adventure, and political intrigue, this conclusion to Dumas swashbuckling musketeer saga is based on the true story of a masked prisoner who dwelled in the Bastille during the Louis XIVs reign and whose identity remains in question to this day.
Critic Reviews:
This swashbuckling conclusion to Dumass musketeer saga pits the brave band of heroes against each other in a power struggle that could change the face of the French monarchy.
No part of the world has ever seemed to me so charming as these pages, and not even my friends are quite so real, perhaps quite so dear, as dArtagnan. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
The name Alexandre Dumas is more than Frenchit is universal. (Victor Hugo)
Members Reviews:
The Musketeers Get Old
The four musketeers age and are near the end of their careers. Huge disappointment after reading "The Black Count", the bio about Dumas' father, and "The Three Musketeers".
There is intrigue, and witty solutions, for the dangers our heroes get into and adventure. However, it dragged out way too long. And, when the man is put into the iron mask, that part of the story simply ends. I thought it would resolve later.
Many historical figures, Louis XIV, Jean-Baptiste Colbert (treasurer), Nicolas Fouquet (Superintendent of France), and several of the king's mistresses.
Great story
Any additional comments?
This story was not as thrilling as The Count of Monte Cristo but still a very good story.
A little disappointing
After the buildup in the previous two novels (Comte de Bragelone and La Valliere), I thought the climax and denouement of the plot involving the man in the iron mask happened and especially ended too soon. Some of the actions of the King Louis XIV are a little unbelievable based on what happens in the book. The best part of the novel is the interactions among the four musketeers. And I thought the way Dumas completes each of these four characters at the end of the novel was well done. I enjoyed the narrator and thought he chose excellent voices for the characters.
Not very pleased.
Essentially, it covers the four musketeers thirty-five years later where Aramis knows a state secret and attempts to over throw the king. However, it barely involves the poor soul condemned to the iron mask, not justification is ever redeemed, and we find ourselves mourning the lost of some beloved characters. The Three Musketeers was about the beginning of four intertwined souls and the Man in the Iron Mask is about their ending. Out of all of Dumas works that I have read, I am the least pleased with this one.
I enjoyed the finale of the D'Artagnan books
This last volume of the D'Artagnan books continues directly from the volume Louise de la Valliere. The story is engrossing with many plot twists. I enjoyed the whole series.
