Publisher's Synopsis
The Man in the Iron Mask deals with one of the greatest historical mysteries of France. Never has Dumas' wonderful imagination, inexhaustible fecundity, unique facility been applied more successfully than to the mystery of the masked prisoner of Lous XIV whose identity remains to this day a debatable problem. Was he an illegitimate son of the king's?Was he his bastard brother? Was he a twin of Louis XIV? Whatever one decides the most famous of all solutions presented freshly in this new and skilfully edited version of Dumas' masterpiece cannot but delight every reader who loves a swift romance set in a fascinating period of European history.
