The Count of Monte Cristo

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Tor, 1998 - Fiction - 580 pages
For nineteen-year-old Edmond Dantes, life is sweet. Soon to be captain of his own ship, he is also about to be married to his true love Mercedes. But suddenly everything turns sour. On the joyous day of his wedding he is arrested and without a fair trial condemned to solitary confinement in the miserable Chateau diff The charges? Faked! Edmond has been framed by a handful of powerful enemies. But why?While locked away Edmond learns from another prisoner of a secret treasure hidden on the island of Monte Cristo. Edmond concocts a daring and audacious plan: escape and find the treasure! But it is years laterlong after Edmond has transformed himself into the Count of Monte Cristo that his plan for revenge begins to unfold.Disguised as the wealthy Count, Edmond returns to his native land to find his enemies and make them pay!

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About the author (1998)

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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