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