The Count of Monte Cristo

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Simon and Schuster, 2004 - Fiction - 688 pages
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Alexandre Dumas's thrilling adventure of one man's quest for freedom and vengeance on those who betrayed him.

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Contents

MarseillesThe Arrival
1
Father and Son
10
The Catalans
15
The Betrothal Feast
23
The Deputy Procureur du Roi
31
The Examination
36
The Château dIf
45
Villefort and Mercédès
54
TheWill
323
TheTelegraph
331
The Dinner
337
A Conjugal Scene
348
Matrimonial Plans
355
A Summer Ball
361
Mme de SaintMéran
377
The Promise
383

The Little Cabinet of the Tuileries
58
The Ogre
64
The Hundred Days
68
Numbers 34 and 27
72
An Italian Scholar
83
The Treasure
100
TheThirdAttack
112
The Cemetery of the Château dIf
118
The Isle of Tiboulen
122
The Isle of Monte Cristo
133
The Treasure Cave
138
TheStranger
145
The Pont du Gard Inn
148
Caderousses Story
154
The Prison Register
165
Morrel and Son
171
The Fifth of September
183
Roman Bandits
192
The Apparition
198
The Carnival at Rome
208
The Catacombs of St Sebastian
221
The Guests
237
The Presentation
254
Unlimited Credit
263
The Pair of Dappled Greys
271
Haydee
279
TheMorrelFamily
284
Toxicology
290
The Rise and Fall of Stocks
300
Pyramus and Thisbe
308
Noirtier de Villefort
316
Minutes of the Proceedings
402
The Progress of Cavalcanti Junior
419
Haydees Story
426
The Report from Janina
444
The Lemonade
452
The Accusation
463
The Trial
468
The Challenge
479
The Insult
484
The Night
491
The Duel
498
Revenge
502
Valentine
512
The Secret Door
525
The Apparition Again
531
The Serpent
537
Maximilian
542
Danglars Signature
550
Consolation
557
Separation
568
The Judge
582
Expiation
591
The Departure
597
The Fifth of October
611
Notes
621
Interpretive Notes
637
Critical Excerpts
647
Questions for Discussion
661
Suggestions for the Interested Reader
663
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About the author (2004)

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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