by Alexandre Dumas
Published 2004
On the eve of his marriage and his promotion to ship's captain, the young sailor Edmond Dantes is betrayed by men who envy his good fortune and accused of a crime he did not commit. Thrown without trial into the island fortress of the Chateau d'If, he spends fourteen years in a stone cell, where a fellow prisoner teaches him history, languages, and the location of an immense hidden treasure. When Dantes finally escapes and claims the fortune on the island of Monte Cristo, he reinvents himself as a mysterious, impossibly wealthy count and sets out to reward the few who helped him and to destroy, one by one, the men who ruined his life. First serialized in 1844, Alexandre Dumas's novel is one of the great adventure stories of world literature, a sprawling tale of betrayal, patience, disguise, and the seductive logic of revenge. Beneath the swordfights and masked balls lies a sharp examination of justice and the ways a ruined man may choose to reshape himself.
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