The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet

"The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet is an adventure novel serialized from 1844 to 1846. When sailor Edmond Dantès is falsely accused and imprisoned on his wedding day, he spends fourteen years in solitary confinement. After a daring escape and the discovery of a vast hidden treasure, he reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo. Returning to Paris, he methodically infiltrates high society to confront the three men who destroyed his life, exploring themes of justice, vengeance, mercy, and forgiveness. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870
Author Maquet, Auguste, 1813-1888
Uniform Title Le comte de Monte-Cristo. English
Title The Count of Monte Cristo
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo
Credits Anonymous Project Gutenberg Volunteers, Dan Muller and David Widger
Reading Level Reading ease score: 78.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject Historical fiction
Subject Revenge -- Fiction
Subject Adventure stories
Subject Prisoners -- Fiction
Subject France -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
Subject Pirates -- Fiction
Subject Dantès, Edmond (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 1184
Release Date
Last Update Aug 9, 2025
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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