The Man in the Iron Mask

Description

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.

Joachim Neugroschelhas won three PEN translation awards and the French-American translation prize. He has alsotranslated 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.