The Count of Monte CristoIn his rousing adventure story, Alexandre Dumas employs all the elements of compelling drama—suspense, intrigue, love, vengeance, and the triumph of good over evil—that contribute to this classic novel’s irresistible and timeless appeal. In the post-Napoleonic era, a young sailor from Marseilles is poised to become captain of his own ship and marry his beloved. But jealous enemies provoke his arrest, condemning Edmond Dantès to lifelong imprisonment in the infamous Château d’If. There, his sole companion reveals his secret plan to escape, as well as the location of a trove of riches hidden on a remote island. Determined to avenge himself against the men that conspired to destroy him, the newly free Edmond uses the treasure to forge a mysterious and powerful new identity: the Count of Monte Cristo. |
Contents
Introduction | v |
List or Characters | xvi |
MarseillesThe Arrival | 1 |
Father and Son | 8 |
The Catalans | 12 |
The Betnrotnal Feast | 19 |
The Deputy Procureur Du Roi | 26 |
Tne Examination | 30 |
Toxicology | 236 |
Tne Rise and Fall or Stocks | 244 |
Pyramus and Thisbe | 251 |
M Noirtier De Villefort | 257 |
Tke Will | 263 |
The Telegraph | 269 |
The Dinner | 274 |
A Conjugal Scene | 283 |
The Château dIf | 37 |
Villefort ana Mercédès | 44 |
The Little Cabinet or the Tuileries | 47 |
Tke Ogre | 52 |
The Hundred Days | 55 |
Numbers 34 and 27 | 58 |
An Italian Scholar | 67 |
The Treasure | 81 |
Tke Third Attack | 91 |
The Cemetery of the Chateau Dif | 96 |
The Isle or Tiboulen | 99 |
The Isle of Monte Cristo | 108 |
The Treasure Cave | 112 |
The Stranger | 117 |
The Pont du Gard Inn | 120 |
Caderousses Story | 124 |
The Prison Register | 133 |
Morrel ana Son | 138 |
The Fifth of September | 148 |
Roman Bandits | 155 |
The Apparition | 160 |
The Carnival at Rome | 168 |
The Catacombs or St Sebastian | 179 |
The Guests | 193 |
Tne Presentation | 207 |
Unlimited Credit | 214 |
The Pair or Dappled Greys | 220 |
Haydee | 227 |
The Morrel Family | 230 |
Matrimonial Plans | 288 |
A Summer Ball | 293 |
Mme de SaintMéran | 307 |
The Promise | 312 |
Minutes of tne Proceedings | 328 |
The Progress or Cavalcanti Junior | 341 |
Haydees Story | 347 |
Tne Report From Janina | 363 |
The Lemonade | 369 |
The Accusation | 379 |
The Trial | 383 |
The Challenge | 392 |
The Insult | 396 |
Tke Night | 402 |
The Duel | 408 |
Revenge | 411 |
Valentine | 419 |
The Secret Door | 430 |
The Apparition Again | 435 |
The Serpent | 439 |
Maximilian | 443 |
Danglars Signature | 450 |
Consolation | 455 |
Separation | 465 |
The Judge | 476 |
Expiation | 484 |
The Departure | 489 |
The Fifth of October | 501 |
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