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Celebrated Crimes - Alexandre Dumas - Book 1 - Book 13: Volume 6: Part 2: The Man in the Iron Mask: An Essay
Title: Celebrated Crimes, Volume 6: The Man in the Iron Mask: An Essay
Overview: From 1839 to 1841, Dumas, with the assistance of several friends, compiled Celebrated Crimes, an eight-volume collection of essays on famous criminals and crimes from European history. He featured Beatrice Cenci, Martin Guerre, Cesare, and Lucrezia Borgia, as well as more recent events and criminals, including the cases of the alleged murderers Karl Ludwig Sand and Antoine François Desrues, who were executed. Dumas's 'Celebrated Crimes' was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language--has minced no words--to describe the violent scenes of a violent time. In some instances, facts appear distorted out of their true perspective, and in others, the author makes unwarranted charges. The careful, mature reader, for whom the books are intended, will recognize, and allow for, this fact. An especially interesting volume is number six, containing, among other materials, the famous "Man in the Iron Mask." This unsolved puzzle of history was later incorporated by Dumas in one of the D'Artagnan Romances a section of the Vicomte de Bragelonne, to which it gave its name. But in this later form, the true story of this singular man doomed to wear an iron vizor over his features during his entire lifetime could only be treated episodically. While as a special subject in the Crimes, Dumas indulges his curiosity, and that of his reader, to the full. Hugo's unfinished tragedy,' Les Jumeaux', is on the same subject; as also are others by Fournier, in French, and Zschokke, in German.
Published: 1910
Series: Celebrated Crimes Collection Series, Celebrated #13
List: True Crime Collection
Author: Alexandre Dumas
Translator: George Burnham Ives
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, Criminology, Middle Ages, Middle Ages History, War & Military, Christianity, Early Modern, Historical Fiction
Episode: Celebrated Crimes - Alexandre Dumas - Book 1 - Book 13: Volume 6: Part 2: The Man in the Iron Mask: An Essay
Volume: 6 of 8
Part: 2 of 3
Episodes Part: 5
Length Part: 1:42:10
Episodes Volume: 18
Length Volume: 7:12:02
Episodes Book: 133
Length Book: 59:56:00
Narrator: John Van Stan
Language: English
Rated: Guidance Strongly Suggested, Mature Audience Only
Edition: Unabridged Audiobook
Keywords: Alexandre Dumas, Biography, Autobiography, True Crime, Criminology, Middle Ages, History, War, Military, Christianity, Early Modern, Historical, Fiction, Borgias, Cenci, Massacres, Deep South, Mary Stuart, Karl-Ludwig Sand, Urbain Grandier, Nisida, Desrues, La Constantin, Joan of Naples, Iron Mask, Martin Guerre, Ali Pacha, Countess de Saint-Geran, Murat, Marquise de Brinvilliers, Vaninka, Marquise de Ganges, The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo
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