Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #326153 in Books
• Published on: 2003-08-28
• Original language: French
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 496 pages

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 incomparable tale of honour, loyalty and adventure.

Customer Reviews

Not happy with this translation
Having read the previous four volumes of Dumas' D'Artagnan cycle in the excellent Oxford Classics series, I turned to the final instalment "The Man in the Iron Mask" with some relish. But I had boobed by buying this Penguin edition.

For a start, the Penguin edition has fewer chapters - it starts further into the story than the Oxford edition. Therefore I was missing a chunk of the story.

Far more distressing were all the Americanisms. OK if you're American, but I'm not am I? After one chapter I'd thrown this book under the settee and gone out and bought the Oxford Classic edition, £1 cheaper and translated into the Queen's English, thank you very much.

It's really made me steer clear of Penguin translations since.