The Man in the Iron Mask is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, the final part of his D'Artagnan romances. Set in seventeenth-century France, it follows D'Artagnan and the musketeers amid courtly intrigue and the mystery of a prisoner in the Bastille. It is worth listening to for its blend of adventure, loyalty and political suspense.
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Opening of the book
The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas, Père THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EDITOR’S NOTE TO THE PG D’ARTAGNAN SERIES LINKED INDEX OF PROJECT GUTENBERG VOLUMES: ORDER TITLE PG EBOOK# DATES VOLUME CHAPTERS 1 The Three Musketeers 1257 1625– 1628 1 2 Twenty Years After 1259 1648– 1649 2 3 The Vicomte de Bragelonne 2609 1660 3 1–75 4 Ten Years Later 2681 1660– 1661 3 76–140 5 Louise de la Vallière 2710 1661 3 141–208 6 The Man in the Iron Mask 2759 1661– 1673 3 209–269 TITLE PG EBOOK# DATES VOLUME CHAPTERS Ten Years Later 1258 1660–1661 3 1–104
Contents
Transcriber’s Notes:
Introduction:
Chapter I. The Prisoner.
Chapter II. How Mouston Had Become Fatter without Giving Porthos
Notice Thereof
Chapter III. Who Messire Jean Percerin Was.
Chapter IV. The Patterns.
Chapter V. Where, Probably, Moliere Obtained His First Idea of the
Bourgeois Gentilhomme.
Chapter VI. The Bee-Hive, the Bees, and the Honey.