The Count of Monte CristoOn 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. |
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 |
IS Number 34 and Number 27 | 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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Common terms and phrases
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