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As you may be aware, Project Gutenberg has been involved with the
writings of both the Alexandre Dumases for some time now, and since
we get a few questions about the order in which the books should be
read, and in which they were published, these following comments
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The Vicomte de Bragelonne is the final volume of D'Artagnan
Romances: it is usually split into three or four parts, and the final
portion is entitled The Man in the Iron Mask. The Man in the Iron
Mask we're familiar with today is the last volume of the four-volume
edition. [Not all the editions split them in the same manner, hence some
of the confusion. . .but wait. . .there's yet more reason for confusion.]
We intend to do ALL of The Vicomte de Bragelonne, split into four
etexts entitled The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Ten Years Later, Louise de
la Valliere, and The Man in the Iron Mask; you WILL be getting The
Man in the Iron Mask.
One thing that may be causing confusion is that the etext we have now,
entitled Ten Years Later, says it's the sequel to The Three Musketeers.
While this is technically true, there's another book, Twenty Years After,
that comes between. The confusion is generated by the two facts that
we published Ten Years Later BEFORE we published Twenty Years
After, and that many people see those titles as meaning Ten and
Twenty Years "After" the original story. . .however, this is why the
different words "After" and "Later". . .the Ten Years "After" is ten
years after the Twenty Years later. . .as per history. Also, the third book
of the D'Artagnan Romances, while entitled The Vicomte de
Bragelonne, has the subtitle Ten Years Later. These two titles are also
given to different volumes: The Vicomte de Bragelonne can refer to the
whole book, or the first volume of the three or four-volume editions.
Ten Years Later can, similarly, refer to the whole book, or the second
volume of the four-volume edition. To add to the confusion, in the case
of our etexts,