The story of Edmond Dantes, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, is told with consummate skill.The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of providence. In his campaign of vengeance, he becomes an anonymous agent of fate.

 The story of Edmond Dantes, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, is told with consummate skill.The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of providence. In his campaign of vengeance, he becomes an anonymous agent of fate. The sensational narrative of intrigue,betrayal, escape, and triumphant revenge moves at a cracking pace. Dumas" novel presents a powerful conflict between good and evil embodied in an epic saga of rich diversity that is complicated by the hero"s ultimate discomfort with the hubristic irnplication of his own actions.

Marseilles - the Arrival

Father and Son

The Catalans

Conspiracy

The Marriage Feast

The Deputy Procureur du Roi

The Examination

The Chateau d'If

The Evening of the Betrothal

The King's Closet at the Tuileries

The Corsican Ogre

Father and Son

The Hundred Days

The Two Prisoners

Number 34 and Number 27

A Learned Italian

The Abbe's Chamber

The Treasure

The Third Attack

The Cemetery of the Chateau d'If

The Island of Tiboulen

The Smugglers

The Island of Monte Cristo

The Secret Cave

The Unknown

The Pont du Gard Inn

The Story

The Prison Register

The House of Morrel & Son

The Fi3~h of September

Italy: Sinbad the Sailor

The Waking

Roman Bandits

The Colosseum

La Mazzolata

The Carnival at Rome

The Catacombs of St Sebastian

The Compact

The Guests

The Breakfast

The PreSentation

Monsieur Bertuccio

The House at Auteuil

The Vendetta

The Rain of Blood

Unlimited Credit

The Dappled Greys

Ideology

Haidee

The Morrel Family

Pyramus and Thisbe

Toxicology

Robert le Diable

A Flurry of Stocks

Major Cavalcanti

Andrea Cavalcanti

In the Lucerne Patch

M. Noirtier de Villefort

The Will

The Telegraph

How a Gardener May Get Rid of the Dormice that Eat his Peaches

Ghosts

The Dinner

The Beggar

A Conjugal Scene

Matrimonial Projects

At the Office of the King's Attorney

A Summer Ball

The Inquiry

The Ball

Bread and Salt

Madame de Saint-Meran

The Promise

The Villefort Family Vault

A Signed Statement

Progress of Cavalcanti the Younger

Haidee

We Hear from Yanina

The Lemonade

The Accusation

The Room of the Retired Baker

The Burglary

The Hand of God

Beauchamp

The Journey

The Trial

The Challenge

The Insult

A Nocturnal Interview

The Meeting

Mother and Son

The Suicide

Valentine

Maximilian's Avowal

Father and Daughter

The Contract

The Departure for Belgium

The Bell and Bottle Tavern

The Law

The Apparition

Locusta

Valentine

Maximilian

Danglars' s Signature

The Cemetery of Pere-la-Chaise

Dividing the Proceeds

The Lions' Den

The Judge

The Assizes

The Indictment

The Expiation

The Departure

The Past

Peppino

Luigi Vampa's Bill of Fare

The Pardon

The Fifth of October