The Man in the Iron Mask (1998 film) Louis XIV and attempts to explain the mystery of the Man in the Iron Mask, using a plot more closely related to the flamboyant 1929 version starring Douglas Fairbanks, "The Iron Mask", and the 1939 version directed by James Whale, than to the original Dumas book. Like the 1998 version, the two aforementioned adaptations were also released through United Artists. In 1662, the Kingdom of France faces bankruptcy from King Louis XIV's wars against the Dutch Republic, which has left the country's agriculture impeded by a heavy tax burden and forced the citizens to live on rotten food. Though the
The Twin (novel) of readers worldwide, who might otherwise never have come across it". Bakker, instead of giving a speech, played a tape recording of "Waar is de zon?", the Dutch entry in Eurovision Song Contest 1994 (which also occurred in Dublin). It was the third consecutive debut novel to win the award, following "Man Gone Down" and "De Niro's Game". J. M. Coetzee describes "The Twin" as "a novel of restrained tenderness and laconic humour". Anne Fine said the book "convinces from first page to last". The Twin (novel) The Twin ("Boven is het stil") is a novel by Dutch writer Gerbrand