THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EDITOR’S NOTE TO THE PG D’ARTAGNAN SERIES
LINKED INDEX OF PROJECT GUTENBERG VOLUMES:
| ORDER | TITLE | PG EBOOK# | DATES | VOLUME | CHAPTERS |
| 1 | The Three Musketeers | 1257 | 1625–1628 | 1 | |
| 2 | Twenty Years After | 1259 | 1648–1649 | 2 | |
| 3 | The Vicomte de Bragelonne | 2609 | 1660 | 3 | 1–75 |
| 4 | Ten Years Later | 2681 | 1660–1661 | 3 | 76–140 |
| 5 | Louise de la Valliere | 2710 | 1661 | 3 | 141–208 |
| 6 | The Man in the Iron Mask | 2759 | 1661–1673 | 3 | 209–269 |
[Project Gutenberg eBook 1258 listed below, is of the same title as eBook 2681and its contents overlap those of two other volumes: it includes all thechapters of eBook 2609 and the first 28 chapters of 2681]
| TITLE | PG EBOOK# | DATES | VOLUME | CHAPTERS |
| Ten Years Later | 1258 | 1660–1661 | 3 | 1–104 |
As you may be aware, Project Gutenberg has been involved with the writings ofboth the Alexandre Dumases for some time now, and since we get a few questionsabout the order in which the books should be read, and in which they werepublished, these following comments should hopefully help most of our readers.
***The Vicomte de Bragelonne is the final volume of D’Artagnan Romances: itis usually split into three or four parts, and the final portion is entitledThe Man in the Iron Mask. The Man in the Iron Mask we’re familiar withtoday is the last volume of the four-volume edition. [Not all the editionssplit them in the same manner, hence some of the confusion...butwait...there’s yet more reason for confusion.]
We intend to do ALL of The Vicomte de Bragelonne, split into four etextsentitled The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Ten Years Later, Louise de la Valliere, andThe 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, entitledTen Years Later, says it’s the sequel to The Three Musketeers. While thisis technically true, there’s another book, Twenty Years After, that comesbetween. The confusion is generated by the two facts that we published TenYears Later BEFORE we published Twenty Years After, and that many people seethose titles as meaning Ten and Twenty Years “After” the originalstory.