The Count of Monte Cristo

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Sterling Publishers Private Limited, 2004 - Fiction - 223 pages
Falsely accused of treason, Edmund Dante, our hero, is arrested on his wedding day. He is then imprisoned in the island fortress of the Chateau d'If. Here he meets Abbe Faria and fortune starts favouring him. He escapes from prison and finds the treasure of Monte Cristo. After that he catches up with his enemies. Alexandre Dumas's romantic novel The Count of Monte Cristo' unveils a gripping tale of excitement and adventure.

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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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