Synopses & Reviews
In the Musketeers final adventure, DArtagnan 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 DArtagnan find themselves caught between conflicting loyalties.
Synopsis
In the final adventure of the Musketeers, THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK sees D'Artagnan remain in the service of the corrupt King Louis XIV after the Three Musketeers have gone their separate ways. Meanwhile a mysterious prisoner in an iron mask languishes in the Bastille, where he has been for eighteen years. When the destinies of the King and the prisoner converge, D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers must face the ultimate conflict of loyalties.
The Man in the Iron Mask is an incomparabletale of honour, loyalty and adventure.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. xxiv-xxv).
About the Author
Joachim Neugroschel has won three PEN translation awards and the French-American translation prize. He has also translated Thomas Mann's
Death in Venice and Sacher-Masoch's
Venus in Furs, both for Penguin Classics. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Francine du Plessix Gray is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and the author of numerous essays and books, including Simone Weil, At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life, Rage and Fire, Lovers and Tyrants, and Soviet Women. She lives with her husband, the painter Cleve Gray.