These novels had large casts of characters, complex plots with numerous intertwined subplots, and central dramas involving love, revenge, and shifts in class or identity. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. The Count of Monte Cristo is a classic example of the mid-nineteenth-century European serial adventure novel. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. This edition includes an introduction, explanatory notes and suggestions for further reading.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas Bantam Books, 1981 - France - 441 pages 8 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified A classic. Disguised now as the mysterious and powerful Count of Monte Cristo, Dants seeks out his enemies - and nothing will stand in the way of his just revenge. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s. The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) Alexandre Dumas Père. Back in the early nineteenth century just about any old rich dude (nabob, meaning a man of great or conspicuous wealth is a good word for those types) could. Robin Buss’s lively English translation is complete and unabridged, and remains faithful to the style of Dumas’s original. After 14 years of hopeless imprisonment, Dants makes his daring escape and follows his secret map to untold fortune. The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) ISBN 13: 9780140449266. Dumas’ epic tale of suffering and retribution, inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, was a huge popular success when it was first serialized in the 1840s. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. "On what slender threads do life and fortune hang." Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
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