Heinle Reading Library: Count of Monte Cristo-Audio

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Cengage Learning, 2006 - Adventure stories
The Count of Monte Cristo is the story of Edmond Dantes, a man who is wrongfully accused of treason on his wedding day and sent to Le Chateau d'If, an island prison. There he meets another prisoner and finds out why he was framed, by whom, and learns of a treasure left on the Island of Monte-Cristo. Dantes escapes from jail, acquires a fortune and sets about getting revenge on those responsible for his imprisonment. Alexandre Dumas was a French writer whose works have been translated into nearly 100 languages. His historical novels include The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, The Corsican Brothers, and The Man in the Iron Mask.

About the author (2006)

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.

Bibliographic information

TitleHeinle Reading Library: Count of Monte Cristo-Audio
AuthorAlexandre Dumas
PublisherCengage Learning, 2006
ISBN1424006023, 9781424006021
  
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