The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo - Paperback

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The Count of Monte Cristo - Paperback

The Count of Monte Cristo - Paperback

by Alexandre Dumas
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by Alexandre Dumas (Author)

On the eve of his wedding, a young sailor named Edmond Dant s is wrongly accused of treason and imprisoned for life in the Ch teau d'If, a reputedly impregnable island fortress. After a daring escape, Dant s unearths a treasure revealed to him by another prisoner and devotes the rest of his life to tracking down and punishing the enemies who wronged him, in disguise as the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo. Set against the dramatic upheavals of the years after Napoleon, Alexandre Dumas's epic tale of betrayal and revenge is one of the most thrilling and enduringly popular adventure novels ever written.

Author Biography

ALEXANDRE DUMAS was born in 1802 in France. His father, a general in Napoleon's army, died when Dumas was three years old, leaving Dumas and his mother impoverished. When he turned twenty-one, Dumas moved to Paris, where he worked for the powerful duc d'Orléans. He wrote popular plays and then novels, including The Three Musketeers. In 1851, he fled from his creditors to Brussels and then to Russia, and in 1861, he joined the fight to unite Italy, founding the revolutionary newspaper L'Indipendente. He died in 1870.

Number of Pages: 1200
Dimensions: 2.1 x 8 x 5.1 IN
Publication Date: June 16, 2020
ISBN9780593081501
Author Alexandre Dumas
PublisherVintage
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedJune 2020
LanguageENG- English
Pages1200
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Alexandre Dumas was born in 1802 at Villers-Cotterets in France. He received very little education but when he entered the household of the future king, Louis-Philippe, he began to read voraciously and then to write. He is best remembered for his historical novels, The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. Dumas died in 1870. Robin Buss was a writer and translator who worked for the Independent on Sunday and as television critic for The Times Educational Supplement. He published critical studies of works by Vigny and Cocteau, and three books on European cinema, The French Through Their Films (1988), Italian Films (1989) and French Film Noir (1994). He also translated a number of volumes for Penguin Classics. He died in 2006.

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