The Count of Monte Cristo

Title:

Author:

Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870, author.

Added Author:

Buss, Robin,

Personal Author:

Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870, author.

ISBN:

9780140449266

Publication Information:

London, England : Penguin Books, c2003.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 1276 pages ; 20 cm

Abstract:

Overview: Alexandre Dumas's novel of justice, retribution, and self-discovery - one of the most enduringly popular adventure tales ever written - appears here in a newly revised translation. "This novel tells the story of Edmond Dantes, wrongfully imprisoned for life in the supposedly impregnable sea fortress the Chateau d'If. After a daring escape, and after unearthing a hidden treasure revealed to him by a fellow prisoner, he devotes the rest of his life to tracking down and punishing the enemies who wronged him. "This newly edited version of the original nineteenth-century English translation speeds the narrative flow while retaining all the essential details of Dumas's intricately plotted and thrilling masterpiece.

Reading Level:

810 Lexile.

Subject Term:

Pirates -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

France -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.

Genre:

Adventure stories.

Historical fiction.

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Summary

Alexandre Dumas's epic tale of suffering and retribution, inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment--nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read

Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo, and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration.

Robin Buss's lively translation is complete and unabridged, and remains faithful to the style of Dumas's original. This edition includes an introduction, explanatory notes, and suggestions for further reading.

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