By Alexandre Dumas, Barbara T. Cooper (Introduction)
The fellow within the Iron masks, by way of Alexander Dumas, is a part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which deals caliber variations at cheap costs to the coed and the final reader, together with new scholarship, considerate layout, and pages of conscientiously crafted extras. listed below are the various striking positive aspects of Barnes & Noble Classics:All versions are fantastically designed and are revealed to more suitable standards; a few contain illustrations of historic curiosity. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls jointly a constellation of influencesbiographical, ancient, and literaryto enhance every one reader's realizing of those enduring works. France within the 1660s is a boiling cauldron of plots and counter-plots as King Louis XIV struggles to increase his strength and remodel himself into the Sun King.” Locked in the dreaded Bastille felony can be his enemies’ final weapon: an nameless prisoner compelled to put on an iron masks in order that none might even see his faceand study his dazzling mystery. yet quickly the famed d’Artagnan and the 3 Musketeers are swept into the actionbut no longer at the similar part! Will they really be compelled to struggle each one other? As a lot a story of puzzle and political intrigue as a swashbuckling experience, the fellow within the Iron masks is the ultimate novel in Alexandre Dumas’s sequence of d’Artagnan romances. the tale follows the heroic younger guy from the rustic who, together with his 3 comrades, turns into a strong impression at the process French historical past. but what appears the main tremendous element of the tale is predicated on truth. in the course of Louis XIV’s reign, a mysterious masked prisoner did reside within the Bastille and his identification is still a question to this day. Barbara T. Cooper is Professor of French on the collage of recent Hampshire. A member of the editorial forums of Nineteenth-Century French reviews and Les Cahiers Alexandre Dumas, she makes a speciality of nineteenth-century French drama and in works via Dumas.
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1817- 1820 Dumas takes a job as a solicitor舗s clerk in Villers-Cotterȴts. At eighteen he meets Adolphe de Leuvan, a young exiled Swedish aristocrat through whom Dumas is introduced to the Parisian theater scene. 1822- 1823 Dumas relocates to Paris. With help from his father舗s military colleagues and because of his elegant handwriting, he becomes a copyist for the Duke of Orlȳans, the future King Louis-Philippe of France, whose palace houses the royal ThȳȦtre-Franȱais. Attending a show one evening, Dumas meets writer Charles Nodier, who will later help advance the young playwright舗s career.
He is a loyal and valiant sacrificial victim, and Dumas gives him a titan舗s burial when the grotto in which he and Aramis have taken temporary refuge on Belle-Isle falls down on him while Aramis makes good his escape from the King舗s forces (see chapters 76-79). In fact, Dumas told his son that he was so upset after composing the pages where he describes the death of Porthos that he could not resume writing for days. Yet Dumas continues to poke gentle fun at Porthos in this novel as he did in The Three Musketeers.
Although disapproving both of the plot and of the cruel misuse of Porthos舗s naivete, because of their past friendship, the Musketeer will later try to provide Aramis and Porthos with an opportunity to evade arrest by the King舗s forces that he has been obliged to lead to Belle-Isle. That effort will fail. He will, therefore, be more than a little surprised when, toward the end of the novel, he finds Aramis, now the duc d舗Alameda and the Spanish ambassador to France, received with great ceremony and honor at Louis舗s palace.