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Title: The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexander Dumas, Alexandre Dumas ISBN: 0-613-08300-8 Publisher: Bt Bound Pub. Date: October, 1999 Format: Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.09 (69 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This is Dumas at his best!
Comment: I read Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo when I was a freshman and fell totally in love with his writing and the story. Surprising then, that I didn't pick up more of his books till three years later, after seeing The Man in the Iron Mask the movie. Guess what, the book and the movie are nothing alike, (what a shocker) but the book is better in all ways. Only Dumas can capture the sense of history and timelessness that is in his novels. I admit that the beginning of The Man in the Iron Mask is confusing for those who haven't read the previous four books(it was for me) yet the story is a wonderful one, richly told and full of the adventure and excitement that Dumas puts into all his works. Within pages I was hooked on the book and found myself totally engrossed with characters I had never met before. It has all the qualities of a first-class adventure story: bravery, friendship, love, death, and an indefinable longing for the world to be somewhat better than it truly is. The plot has little to do with Philippe (The man in the iron mask) and deals with the last adventures of Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and d'Artagnan, and the ties of friendship which bind them together. I cried throughout the last fifty pages of the book. After finishing it, I immediately read the rest of the Musketeer series and have become a life-long fan. I recommend this book to anyone who has a sense a romance and adventure.
Rating: 5
Summary: Better than the movie
Comment: This is one Dumas best works, and to those who dislike i say this: to say it has an awful ending means you have completely missed the point. There a number of peaple (the makers of the recent film included) who seem to believe that it's about a man who is forced to wear an iron mask, it isn't. The book is actually about the destinies of the musketeers and how they meet them, the mask is simply a plot vehicle for this. Secondly the book makes little or no sense if read out of secquence with the others, you see this is the final part of dumas final musketeers story (the vicomte de bragelone) and should be read after the other parts. All that said this is great book, only dumas can take 120 pages to tell one day and keep us gripped. The ending is wonderfully sad and still keeps us guessing.
Rating: 4
Summary: Beware: Not all versions are the same
Comment: I had been reading the entire series in the Oxford World Classics version, and when I finished "Louise de Lavalliere" I switched to a Signet version (Leonardo Dicaprio cover) I had bought locally.
As I read, I couldn't understand certain references. I later discovered that the Signet version of "The Man in the Iron Mask" starts on chapter 29 of the OWC version!
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Title: Louise de la Valliere by Alexandre Dumas, David Coward ISBN: 0192834657 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Twenty Years After (Oxford World's Classics) by Alexandre Dumas, David Coward ISBN: 0192838431 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Vicomte De Bragelonne (Oxford World's Classics) by Alexandre Dumas, David Coward ISBN: 0192834630 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas ISBN: 0140367470 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: November, 1995 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas ISBN: 0679601996 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 09 July, 1996 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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