This book, like most of Dumas' work is wonderful. His adventure stories silently evoke a sense of wonderment and raise the hairs on the back of your neck. Most movies of the same titles do not portray the events as he wrote them, but I have found most did accomodate the tempo or the 'feel' of his novels. I would additionally like to set the record straight on the trilogy argument did I see in most of the reviews in this page. The series which originally published as a trilogy, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and Vicomte de Bragelonne. The Vicomte de Bragelonne is now published by most in three volumes: Vicomte de Bragellone, Louise de la Valliere, and finally The Man in the Iron Mask. I have seen it split into four parts with Ten Years Later Being Placed in between the Vicomte de Bragellone and Louise de la Valliere. This splitting what done Because When the three are combined, or rather not split, the novel is large and cumbersome to read. I Hope that all this literary information does not detract one from the greatness of this series HOWEVER, it is truly a wonderful tale to read about, and the story endures through to modern times with the same ferver in Which It was released.
