num_pages: 470
description: In the concluding installment of Alexandre Dumas's celebrated cycle of the Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan remains in the service of the corrupt King Louis XIV after the Three Musketeers have retired and gone their separate ways. Unbeknownst to D'Artagnan, Aramis and Porthos plot to remove the inept king and place the king's twin brother on the throne of France. Meanwhile, a twenty-three-year-old prisoner known only as "Philippe" wastes away deep inside the Bastille. Forced to wear an iron mask, Phillippe has been imprisoned for eight years, has no knowledge of his true identity, and has not been told what crime he's committed. When the destinies of the king and Phillippe converge, the Three Musketeers and D'Artagnan find themselves caught between conflicting loyalties.
language: English
title: The Man in the Iron Mask
titlecomplete: The Man in the Iron Mask
characters: Aramis, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV of France, Athos, Porthos, The Man in The Iron Mask, Nicolas Fouquet, Henrietta Anne Stuart, duchess d'Orléans, Raoul de Bragelonne, Louise de la Valliere, Philippe de France, duke of Orléans, Anne of Austria, D'Artagnan
genres: Historical Fiction, Historical, French Literature, Novels, Literature, Classic Literature, Classics, Adventure, Fiction, France
ratings_count: 65022
places: Paris, Nantes, Bastille, Paris, France
series: The d’Artagnan Romances
publisher: Penguin Books