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Adventure

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

Translated by Chapman and Hall

With Thomas Y. Crowell

A man seeks revenge for having been falsely imprisoned years earlier.

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First published
1884
Length
462,721 words
Reading time
About 32 hr 9 min
Language
English (US)

About the book

Edmond Dantès is a young man about to be made captain of a cargo vessel and marry his sweetheart. But he is arrested at his pre-wedding feast, having been falsely accused of being a Bonapartist. Thrown into the notorious Château d’If prison, he eventually meets an ancient inmate who teaches him language, science, and passes hints of a hidden fortune. When Edmond makes his way out of prison, he plots to reward those who stood by him (his old employer, for one), and to seek revenge on the men who betrayed him: one who wrote the letter that denounced him, one that married his fiancée in his absence, and one who knew Dantès was innocent but stood idly by and did nothing.

The Count of Monte Cristo is another of Alexandre Dumas’ thrilling adventure stories, possibly more popular even than The Three Musketeers . Originally serialized in a French newspaper over the course of a year-and-a-half, it was enormously popular after its publication in book form, and has never been out of print since. Its timeless story of adventure, historical drama, romance, revenge, and Eastern mystery has been the source of over forty movies and TV series.

the Read4Max reading text contains approximately 462,721 words arranged in 118 navigable sections.

The source metadata identifies Translator: Chapman and Hall; Annotator: Thomas Y. Crowell.

About the author

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) is described by Wikidata as French writer and dramatist (1802–1870), with citizenship or national association recorded as France.

Recorded occupations include novelist, playwright, and writer. Languages recorded for Alexandre Dumas include French. The structured record associates Alexandre Dumas with French Romanticism. Wikidata lists The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, La Reine Margot, Twenty Years After, La Dame de Monsoreau, and Joseph Balsamo among Alexandre Dumas's notable works. Open Library identifies Les Trois Mousquetaires as a leading work in its author record. Open Library catalogs 4434 works under this author record. The Read4Max catalog currently includes The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers under Alexandre Dumas's authorship.

1802–1870

Contributors

Translator

Chapman and Hall

Annotator

Thomas Y. Crowell

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Themes and ideas

  • Historical fiction
  • Revenge
  • Adventure stories
  • Prisoners
  • France
  • Pirates
  • Dantès, Edmond (Fictitious character)

Table of contents

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  1. I
  2. II
  3. III
  4. IV
  5. V
  6. VI
  7. VII
  8. VIII
  9. IX
  10. X
  11. XI
  12. XII
  13. XIII
  14. XIV
  15. XV
  16. XVI
  17. XVII
  18. XVIII
  19. XIX
  20. XX
  21. XXI
  22. XXII
  23. XXIII
  24. XXIV
  25. XXV
  26. XXVI
  27. XXVII
  28. XXVIII
  29. XXIX
  30. XXX
  31. XXXI
  32. XXXII
  33. XXXIII
  34. XXXIV
  35. XXXV
  36. XXXVI
  37. XXXVII
  38. XXXVIII
  39. XXXIX
  40. XL
  41. XLI
  42. XLII
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  44. XLIV
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  46. XLVI
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  48. XLVIII
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  54. LIV
  55. LV
  56. LVI
  57. LVII
  58. LVIII
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  80. LXXX
  81. LXXXI
  82. LXXXII
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  87. LXXXVII
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  90. XC
  91. XCI
  92. XCII
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  94. XCIV
  95. XCV
  96. XCVI
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  100. C
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  102. CII
  103. CIII
  104. CIV
  105. CV
  106. CVI
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  108. CVIII
  109. CIX
  110. CX
  111. CXI
  112. CXII
  113. CXIII
  114. CXIV
  115. CXV
  116. CXVI
  117. CXVII
  118. Endnotes
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