书名：The Man in the Iron Mask 铁面人
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数990L
作者：Alexandre Dumas
出版社名称：HarperCollins
出版时间：2013
语种：英文
ISBN：9780007449880
商品尺寸：11.1 x3.9 x 17.8 cm
包装：简装
页数：630

《铁面人》是一部以历史事件为题材的杰出通俗小说。硬汉达达尼安是位忠诚刚勇的剑客，他被卷入一对孪生兄弟的王位争夺漩涡里小说将宫廷争斗与三个火枪手的冒险经历巧妙地结合在一起，真实再现了十七世纪上半叶法国统治阶级之间的明争暗斗、互相倾轧的政治局势。
本书为柯林斯经典系列的英译本，原版进口，小巧轻便，含历史背景及作者介绍（Life & Times），后附英语词汇注释（Glossary of Classic Literature），生词表采用《柯林斯英语词典》的解释，有助于读者学习理解。
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“I’ve worn that mask so long I don’t feel safe without it.”
D’Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis return to meet their destinies in their final adventure. D’Artagnan still remains in the service of King Louis XIV, while Aramis is a priest at the Bastille prison. Upon listening to a confession from an iron-masked prisoner who tells him that he is the twin brother of the King of France, Aramis is convinced that he will be rewarded if he can help him become king and he devises a plan for his escape, pitching himself against his old comrade D’Artagnan. Far darker than Dumas’ previous novels,The Man in the Iron Mask is a fast-paced and compelling historical romance of honour and loyalty.
Features:
·Life & Times—a fascinating insight into the author, their work and the time of publication
·Glossary of Classic Literature—useful words and phrases at your fingertips, taken from Collins English Dictionary

三十年后，四个火枪手各自过着不同的生活，似乎曾经的冒险生涯都已过去，然而新国王路易十四傲慢且残酷，与此同时，一名神秘囚犯已在巴士底狱中关押了近十年。为了国家的未来，四个火枪手必须重新聚集去执行一项危险的使命：他们要救出这名囚犯，搞清他的身份，取代国王。究竟这名囚犯是谁，他能否成功获救，能否拯救国家，他今后的命运如何，四个火枪手能否一如既往地兑现“我为人人，人人为我”的誓言，这将是四个火枪手振奋人心的一段传奇！
The final rousing adventures of Alexandre Dumas’ Three Musketeers Deep inside the dreaded Bastille, a twenty-three-year-old prisoner called merely “Philippe” has languished for eight long, dark years. He does not know his real name or what crime he is supposed to have committed. But Aramis, one of the original Three Musketeers, has bribed his way into the cell to reveal the shocking secret that has kept Philippe locked away from the world. That carefully concealed truth could topple Louis XIV, king of France which is exactly Aramis’ plan. A daring jailbreak, a brilliant masquerade, and a terrifying fight for the throne may make Aramis betray his sacred vow, “all for one, and one for all!” In this concluding episode of the Three Musketeers saga, the actions of Aramis and the other Musketeers Athos, Porthos, and the most dashing of them all, D’Artagnan bring either honor or disgrace and a horrifying punishment for the final loser in the battle royal. 

亚历山大·大仲马（1802.7.24—1870.12.5）法国19世纪积极浪漫主义作家，世界文学名著《基度山恩仇记》的作者。大仲马自学成才，一生写的各种著作达300卷之多，主要以小说和剧作著称于世。大仲马信守共和政见，反对君主专政。由于他是黑白混血人的身份，其一生都受种族主义的困扰。2002年，大仲马去世132年后终于移入了法国先贤祠。
Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) was a famous French writer. He is best remembered for his exciting romantic sagas, including “The Three Musketeers” and “The Count of Monte Cristo”. Despite making a great deal of money from his writing, Dumas was almost perpetually penniless thanks to his extravagant lifestyle. His novels have been translated into nearly a hundred different languages, and have inspired over 200 motion pictures. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are becoming extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

Introduction
Chapter 1  The Prisoner
Chapter 2  How Mouston Had Become Fatter without Giving Porthos Notice Thereof, and of the Troubles Which Consequently Befell that Worthy Gentleman
Chapter 3  Who Messire Jean Percerin Was
Chapter 4  The Patterns
Chapter 5  Where, Probably, Moliere Obtained His First Idea of the Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Chapter 6  The Bee-Hive, the Bees, and the Honey
Chapter 7  Another Supper at the Bastille
Chapter 8  The General of the Order
Chapter 9  The Tempter
Chapter 10  Crown and Tiara
Chapter 11  The Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte
Chapter 12  The Wine of Melun
Chapter 13  Nectar and Ambrosia
Chapter 14  A Gascon, and a Gascon and a Half
Chapter 15  Colbert
Chapter 16  Jealousy
Chapter 17  High Treason
Chapter 18  A Night at the Bastille
Chapter 19  The Shadow of M. Fouquet
Chapter 20  The Morning
Chapter 21  The King’s Friend
Chapter 22  Showing How the Countersign Was Respected at the Bastille
Chapter 23  The King’s Gratitude
Chapter 24  The False King
Chapter 25  In Which Porthos Thinks He Is Pursuing a Duchy
Chapter 26  The Last Adieux
Chapter 27  Monsieur de Beaufort
Chapter 28  Preparations for Departure
Chapter 29  Planchet’s Inventory
Chapter 30  The Inventory of M. de Beaufort
Chapter 31  The Silver Dish
Chapter 32  Captive and Jailers
Chapter 33  Promises
Chapter 34  Among Women
Chapter 35  The Last Supper
Chapter 36  In M. Colbert’s Carriage
Chapter 37  The Two Lighters
Chapter 38  Friendly Advice
Chapter 39  How the King, Louis XIV, Played His Little Part
Chapter 40  The White Horse and the Black
Chapter 41  In Which the Squirrel Falls,—the Adder Flies
Chapter 42  Belle-Ile–en-Mer
Chapter 43  Explanations by Aramis
Chapter 44  Result of the Ideas of the King, and the Ideas of D’Artagnan
Chapter 45  The Ancestors of Porthos
Chapter 46  The Son of Biscarrat
Chapter 47  The Grotto of Locmaria
Chapter 48  The Grotto
Chapter 49  An Homeric Song
Chapter 50  The Death of a Titan
Chapter 51  Porthos’s Epitaph
Chapter 52  M. de Gesvres’s Round
Chapter 53  King Louis XIV
Chapter 54  M. Fouquet’s Friends
Chapter 55  Porthos’s Will
Chapter 56  The Old Age of Athos
Chapter 57  Athos’s Vision
Chapter 58  The Angel of Death
Chapter 59  The Bulletin
Chapter 60  The Last Canto of the Poem
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