The Count of Monte Cristo

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Jun 16, 2020 - Fiction - 1200 pages
On the eve of his wedding, a young sailor named Edmond Dantès is wrongly accused of treason and imprisoned for life in the Château d’If, a reputedly impregnable island fortress. After a daring escape, Dantès unearths a treasure revealed to him by another prisoner and devotes the rest of his life to tracking down and punishing the enemies who wronged him, in disguise as the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo. Set against the dramatic upheavals of the years after Napoleon, Alexandre Dumas’s epic tale of betrayal and revenge is one of the most thrilling and enduringly popular adventure novels ever written.
 

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Contents

The Arrival at Marseilles
7
Father and Son
15
The Catalans
22
The Plotters
32
The Betrothal Feast
38
The Deputy Procureur
53
The Examination
63
The Château dIf
72
Noirtier de Villefort
642
The Will
651
The Telegraph
659
The Bribe
668
Shadows
677
The Dinner
685
The Beggar
694
A Conjugal Scene
702

The Evening of the Betrothal
80
The Little Room in the Tuileries
85
The Corsican Ogre
92
Father and Son
100
The Hundred Days
107
In the Dungeons
113
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122
A Learned Italian
135
In the Abbés Cell
146
The Treasure
168
The Death of the Abbé
179
The Cemetery of the Château dIf
189
The Isle of Tiboulen
194
The Smugglers
203
The Isle of Monte Cristo
210
The Search
218
At Marseilles Again
225
The Inn of Pont du Gard
233
The Tale
249
The Prison Registers
262
The House of Morrel and Son
269
The Fifth of September
280
Sinbad the Sailor
294
The Awakening
315
Roman Bandits
321
Vampa
338
The Colosseum
349
La Mazzolata
372
The Carnival at Rome
384
The Catacombs of Saint Sebastian
399
The Rendezvous
414
The Guests
421
The Breakfast
427
The Presentation
447
Monsieur Bertuccio
458
The House at Auteuil 403
463
The Vendetta
469
The Rain of Blood
490
Unlimited Credit
503
The Dappled Greys
515
Ideology
529
So Haydée
539
SI The Morrel Family
544
Pyramus and Thisbet
553
Toxicology
565
Robert le Diable
581
A Talk about Stocks
599
Major Cavalcanti
610
Andrea Cavalcanti
620
At the Gate
632
Matrimonial Plans
711
The Office of the Procureur du Roi
720
A Summer Ball
729
The Inquiry
736
The Ball
745
Bread and Salt
751
Madame de SaintMéran
755
The Promise
766
The Villefort Family Vault
790
A Signed Statement
797
The Progress of M Cavalcanti the Younger
807
Haydée
816
Yanina
836
The Lemonade
855
The Accusation
867
The Room of the Retired Baker
872
The Burglary
888
The Hand of God
900
Beauchamp
906
The Journey
911
The Trial
919
The Challenge
930
The Insult
936
Mercédès
944
The Meeting
952
The Mother and Son
963
The Suicide
968
Valentine
976
The Confession
983
The Father and Daughter
994
The Contract
1002
The Departure for Belgium IOII
1011
The Inn of the Bell and Bottle
1017
The Law
1027
ΙΟΙ The Apparition
1036
The Serpent
1042
Valentine
1047
Maximilian
1052
Danglars Signature
1060
The Cemetery of PèrelaChaise
1068
The Division
1079
The Lions Den
1092
The Judge
1099
IIO The Assizes
1107
Expiation
1116
The Departure
1123
The House in the Allées de Meillan
1127
Peppino
1147
The Pardon
1162
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ALEXANDRE DUMAS was born in 1802 in France. His father, a general in Napoleon's army, died when Dumas was three years old, leaving Dumas and his mother impoverished. When he turned twenty-one, Dumas moved to Paris, where he worked for the powerful duc d'Orléans. He wrote popular plays and then novels, including The Three Musketeers. In 1851, he fled from his creditors to Brussels and then to Russia, and in 1861, he joined the fight to unite Italy, founding the revolutionary newspaper L'Indipendente. He died in 1870.

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