The Count of Monte Cristo, Volume 2

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ReadHowYouWant.com, 2006 - Fiction - 701 pages
With the post-Napoleonic era as the back-drop, the novel covers the life of a young sailor, Edmond Dantes. The narration follows him from near-triumph to complete disaster and then his swashbuckling adventures to get freedom and revenge. The blustering journey of the protagonist keeps the reader on the edge.
 

Contents

Chapter 1
1
Chapter 2
18
Chapter 3
46
Chapter 4
81
Chapter 5
136
Chapter 6
150
Chapter 7
217
Chapter 8
287
Chapter 11
400
Chapter 12
420
Chapter 13
438
Chapter 14
496
Chapter 15
526
Chapter 16
537
Chapter 17
554
Chapter 18
602

Chapter 9
320
Chapter 10
359

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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.

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