The Man in the Iron Mask

Adventure
Book language: English
500 pages

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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The Man in the Iron Mask
Contents
Transcriber’s Notes:
Introduction:
Chapter I. The Prisoner.
Chapter II. How Mouston Had Become Fatter without Giving Porthos Notice Thereof, and of the Troubles Which Consequently
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.
Chapter VII. Another Supper at the Bastile.
Chapter VIII. The General of the Order.
Chapter IX. The Tempter.
Chapter X. Crown and Tiara.
Chapter XI. The Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte.
Chapter XII. The Wine of Melun.
Chapter XIII. Nectar and Ambrosia.
Chapter XIV. A Gascon, and a Gascon and a Half.
Chapter XV. Colbert.
Chapter XVI. Jealousy.
Chapter XVII. High Treason.
Chapter XVIII. A Night at the Bastile.
Chapter XIX. The Shadow of M. Fouquet.
Chapter XX. The Morning.
Chapter XXI. The King’s Friend.
Chapter XXII. Showing How the Countersign Was Respected at the Bastile.
Chapter XXIII. The King’s Gratitude.
Chapter XXIV. The False King.
Chapter XXV. In Which Porthos Thinks He Is Pursuing a Duchy.
Chapter XXVI. The Last Adieux.