The Man in the Iron Mask

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Alan Rodgers Books, 2009 - Fiction - 220 pages

THE FINAL REVENGE

Is the Count of Monte Cristo's revenge sweet?

With great expectations, the young sailor Edmond Dantes returned to Marseilles France in 1815.

But Dantes' enemies had him imprisoned in the dungeons of Château D'If.

In prison, Dantes met and befriended an Italian abbé who educated him and then, in death, helped him escape with a fabulous secret of a treasure on the island of Monte Cristo.

Rich and posing as the Count of Monte Cristo, Dantes returned with a beautiful companion named Haidee.

Dantes worked hard to ruin Danglars, his former shipmate and Fernand who stole his fiancé Mercedes from him.

The end of his enemies will indeed be welcome.

But what of the lovers Valentine and Maximilian from the generation untainted by the one that betrayed him?

What plans did the Count of Monte Cristo have for them?

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About the author (2009)

After an idle youth, Alexandre Dumas went to Paris and spent some years writing. A volume of short stories and some farces were his only productions until 1927, when his play Henri III (1829) became a success and made him famous. It was as a storyteller rather than a playwright, however, that Dumas gained enduring success. Perhaps the most broadly popular of French romantic novelists, Dumas published some 1,200 volumes during his lifetime. These were not all written by him, however, but were the works of a body of collaborators known as "Dumas & Co." Some of his best works were plagiarized. For example, The Three Musketeers (1844) was taken from the Memoirs of Artagnan by an eighteenth-century writer, and The Count of Monte Cristo (1845) from Penchet's A Diamond and a Vengeance. At the end of his life, drained of money and sapped by his work, Dumas left Paris and went to live at his son's villa, where he remained until his death.

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