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The Man in the Iron Mask

Alexandre Dumas

  • 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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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.

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.

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Contents

  1. The Man in the Iron Mask
  2. Contents
  3. Transcriber’s Notes:
  4. Introduction:
  5. Chapter I. The Prisoner.
  6. Chapter II. How Mouston Had Become Fatter without Giving Porthos Notice Thereof, and of the Troubles Which Consequently
  7. Chapter III. Who Messire Jean Percerin Was.
  8. Chapter IV. The Patterns.
  9. Chapter V. Where, Probably, Moliere Obtained His First Idea of the Bourgeois Gentilhomme.
  10. Chapter VI. The Bee-Hive, the Bees, and the Honey.
  11. Chapter VII. Another Supper at the Bastile.
  12. Chapter VIII. The General of the Order.
  13. Chapter IX. The Tempter.
  14. Chapter X. Crown and Tiara.
  15. Chapter XI. The Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte.
  16. Chapter XII. The Wine of Melun.
  17. Chapter XIII. Nectar and Ambrosia.
  18. Chapter XIV. A Gascon, and a Gascon and a Half.
  19. Chapter XV. Colbert.
  20. Chapter XVI. Jealousy.
  21. Chapter XVII. High Treason.
  22. Chapter XVIII. A Night at the Bastile.
  23. Chapter XIX. The Shadow of M. Fouquet.
  24. Chapter XX. The Morning.
  25. Chapter XXI. The King’s Friend.
  26. Chapter XXII. Showing How the Countersign Was Respected at the Bastile.
  27. Chapter XXIII. The King’s Gratitude.
  28. Chapter XXIV. The False King.
  29. Chapter XXV. In Which Porthos Thinks He Is Pursuing a Duchy.
  30. Chapter XXVI. The Last Adieux.

and 37 more chapters

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