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The man in the iron mask

An abridged version of the tale of the four Musketeers' final adventure during which they plot to replace King Louis XIV of France with the mysterious, masked prisoner in the Bastille believed to be Louis' falsely imprisoned twin brother and the true king.

Main Author: Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870
Other Authors: Ho, Oliver., Howell, Troy., Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Sterling Pub., c2008.
Edition: Abridged
Series: Classic starts.
Subjects:
Man in the Iron Mask > Juvenile fiction.
Prisoners > Juvenile fiction.
Brothers > Juvenile fiction.
Twins > Juvenile fiction.
France > History > Louis XIV, 1643-1715 > Juvenile fiction.
Adventure stories > Juvenile.
Summary: An abridged version of the tale of the four Musketeers' final adventure during which they plot to replace King Louis XIV of France with the mysterious, masked prisoner in the Bastille believed to be Louis' falsely imprisoned twin brother and the true king.
Physical Description: 151 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
ISBN: 9781402745799
1402745796
Author Notes: After an idle youth, Alexandre Dumas went to Paris and spent some years writing. A volume of short stories and some farces were his only productions until 1927, when his play Henri III (1829) became a success and made him famous. It was as a storyteller rather than a playwright, however, that Dumas gained enduring success. Perhaps the most broadly popular of French romantic novelists, Dumas published some 1,200 volumes during his lifetime. These were not all written by him, however, but were the works of a body of collaborators known as "Dumas & Co." Some of his best works were plagiarized. For example, The Three Musketeers (1844) was taken from the Memoirs of Artagnan by an eighteenth-century writer, and The Count of Monte Cristo (1845) from Penchet's A Diamond and a Vengeance. At the end of his life, drained of money and sapped by his work, Dumas left Paris and went to live at his son's villa, where he remained until his death.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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