The Count of Monte Cristo

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The Floating Press, Jan 1, 2009 - Fiction - 2480 pages
The Count of Monte Cristo is Alexandre Dumas' classic tale of revenge and adventure. The young sailor Dantes is fallaciously charged with treason and loses his fiancé, his dreams and his life when he is locked up for thirteen years on the island prison of Chateau d'If. Mentored by another prisoner, Dantes finally escapes the prison, reinvents himself as the Count of Monte Cristo and begins to exact his revenge on the people who set him up.
 

Contents

Chapter 61 How a Gardener May Get Rid of the Dormice that Eat His Peaches
1372
Chapter 62 Ghosts
1393
Chapter 63 The Dinner
1410
Chapter 64 The Beggar
1429
Chapter 65 A Conjugal Scene
1447
Chapter 66 Matrimonial Projects
1465
Chapter 67 At the Office of the Kings Attorney
1486
Chapter 68 A Summer Ball
1507

Chapter 9 The Evening of the Betrothal
168
Chapter 10 The Kings Closet at the Tuileries
179
Chapter 11 The Corsican Ogre
197
Chapter 12 Father and Son
214
Chapter 13 The Hundred Days
229
Chapter 14 The Two Prisoners
243
Chapter 15 Number 34 and Number 27
263
Chapter 16 A Learned Italian
291
Chapter 17 The Abbes Chamber
313
Chapter 18 The Treasure
357
Chapter 19 The Third Attack
379
Chapter 20 The Cemetery of the Chateau DIf
398
Chapter 21 The Island of Tiboulen
408
Chapter 22 The Smugglers
427
Chapter 23 The Island of Monte Cristo
440
Chapter 24 The Secret Cave
454
Chapter 25 The Unknown
468
Chapter 26 The Pont Du Gard Inn
482
Chapter 27 The Story
511
Chapter 28 The Prison Register
537
Chapter 29 The House of Morrel Son
551
Chapter 30 The Fifth of September
574
Sinbad the Sailor
601
Chapter 32 The Waking
644
Chapter 33 Roman Bandits
655
Chapter 34 The Colosseum
706
Chapter 35 La Mazzolata
759
Chapter 36 The Carnival at Rome
784
Chapter 37 The Catacombs of Saint Sebastian
815
Chapter 38 The Compact
848
Chapter 39 The Guests
864
Chapter 40 The Breakfast
879
Chapter 41 The Presentation
925
Chapter 42 Monsieur Bertuccio
948
Chapter 43 The House at Auteuil
957
Chapter 44 The Vendetta
971
Chapter 45 The Rain of Blood
1008
Chapter 46 Unlimited Credit
1031
Chapter 47 The Dappled Grays
1057
Chapter 48 Ideology
1082
Chapter 49 Haidee
1103
Chapter 50 The Morrel Family
1113
Chapter 51 Pyramus and Thisbe
1130
Chapter 52 Toxicology
1152
Chapter 53 Robert Le Diable
1184
Chapter 54 A Flurry in Stocks
1219
Chapter 55 Major Cavalcanti
1242
Chapter 56 Andrea Cavalcanti
1268
Chapter 57 In the Lucerne Patch
1295
Chapter 58 M Noirtier De Villefort
1318
Chapter 59 The Will
1335
Chapter 60 The Telegraph
1352
Chapter 69 The Inquiry
1523
Chapter 70 The Ball
1543
Chapter 71 Bread and Salt
1563
Chapter 72 Madame De SaintMeran
1572
Chapter 73 The Promise
1594
Chapter 74 The Villefort Family Vault
1642
Chapter 75 A Signed Statement
1658
Chapter 76 Progress of Cavalcanti the Younger
1678
Chapter 77 Haidee
1698
Chapter 78 We Hear from Yanina
1739
Chapter 79 The Lemonade
1780
Chapter 80 The Accusation
1803
Chapter 81 The Room of the Retired Baker
1814
Chapter 82 The Burglary
1852
Chapter 83 The Hand of God
1879
Chapter 84 Beauchamp
1891
Chapter 85 The Journey
1904
Chapter 86 The Trial
1924
Chapter 87 The Challenge
1945
Chapter 88 The Insult
1958
Chapter 89 A Nocturnal Interview
1976
Chapter 90 The Meeting
1990
Chapter 91 Mother and Son
2012
Chapter 92 The Suicide
2023
Chapter 93 Valentine
2040
Chapter 94 Maximilians Avowal
2053
Chapter 95 Father and Daughter
2074
Chapter 96 The Contract
2090
Chapter 97 The Departure for Belgium
2112
Chapter 98 The Bell and Bottle Tavern
2125
Chapter 99 The Law
2146
Chapter 100 The Apparition
2164
Chapter 101 Locusta
2177
Chapter 102 Valentine
2188
Chapter 103 Maximilian
2198
Chapter 104 Danglars Signature
2214
Chapter 105 The Cemetery of PereLaChaise
2237
Chapter 106 Dividing the Proceeds
2261
Chapter 107 The Lions Den
2288
Chapter 108 The Judge
2303
Chapter 109 The Assizes
2320
Chapter 110 The Indictment
2333
Chapter 111 Expiation
2346
Chapter 112 The Departure
2361
Chapter 113 The Past
2386
Chapter 114 Peppino
2409
Chapter 115 Luigi Vampas Bill of Fare
2427
Chapter 116 The Pardon
2438
Chapter 117 The Fifth of October
2449
Endnotes
2475
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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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