The Count of Monte CristoNominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read A popular bestseller since its publication in 1844, The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the great page-turning thrillers of all time. Set against the tumultuous years of the post-Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas’s grand historical romance recounts the swashbuckling adventures of Edmond Dantès, a dashing young sailor falsely accused of treason. The story of his long imprisonment, dramatic escape, and carefully wrought revenge offers up a vision of France that has become immortal. As Robert Louis Stevenson declared, “I do not believe there is another volume extant where you can breathe the same unmingled atmosphere of romance.” |
Contents
| v | |
| xvi | |
| 1 | |
| 8 | |
| 12 | |
The Betnrotnal Feast | 19 |
The Deputy Procureur Du Roi | 26 |
Tne Examination | 30 |
Toxicology | 236 |
Tne Rise and Fall or Stocks | 244 |
Pyramus and Thisbe | 251 |
M Noirtier De Villefort | 257 |
Tke Will | 263 |
The Telegraph | 269 |
The Dinner | 274 |
A Conjugal Scene | 283 |
The Château dIf | 37 |
Villefort ana Mercédès | 44 |
The Little Cabinet or the Tuileries | 47 |
Tke Ogre | 52 |
The Hundred Days | 55 |
Numbers 34 and 27 | 58 |
An Italian Scholar | 67 |
The Treasure | 81 |
Tke Third Attack | 91 |
The Cemetery of the Chateau Dif | 96 |
The Isle or Tiboulen | 99 |
The Isle of Monte Cristo | 108 |
The Treasure Cave | 112 |
The Stranger | 117 |
The Pont du Gard Inn | 120 |
Caderousses Story | 124 |
The Prison Register | 133 |
Morrel ana Son | 138 |
The Fifth of September | 148 |
Roman Bandits | 155 |
The Apparition | 160 |
The Carnival at Rome | 168 |
The Catacombs or St Sebastian | 179 |
The Guests | 193 |
Tne Presentation | 207 |
Unlimited Credit | 214 |
The Pair or Dappled Greys | 220 |
Haydee | 227 |
The Morrel Family | 230 |
Matrimonial Plans | 288 |
A Summer Ball | 293 |
Mme de SaintMéran | 307 |
The Promise | 312 |
Minutes of tne Proceedings | 328 |
The Progress or Cavalcanti Junior | 341 |
Haydees Story | 347 |
Tne Report From Janina | 363 |
The Lemonade | 369 |
The Accusation | 379 |
The Trial | 383 |
The Challenge | 392 |
The Insult | 396 |
Tke Night | 402 |
The Duel | 408 |
Revenge | 411 |
Valentine | 419 |
The Secret Door | 430 |
The Apparition Again | 435 |
The Serpent | 439 |
Maximilian | 443 |
Danglars Signature | 450 |
Consolation | 455 |
Separation | 465 |
The Judge | 476 |
Expiation | 484 |
The Departure | 489 |
The Fifth of October | 501 |
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Common terms and phrases
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