Rank 49 of 100
The Count of Monte Cristo
Also known as Le Comte de Monte-Cristo
Synopsis
Edmond Dantès, a young sailor on the verge of marriage and a captaincy, is framed by men who want his job, his fiancée, or his silence. After years in an island prison and a fortune he should not have, he returns to Paris under another name. Dumas makes revenge luxurious, then asks what is left of the man who planned it.
Synopses are original catalog copy written for Every Book Ever, not publisher blurbs.
Catalogue card
- Year
- 1844–1846
- Language
- French
- Country
- France
- Form
- Novel
- Genre
- Adventure, Historical
- Audience
- Adult
- Era
- 19th century
- Movement
- Romantic
- Series
- —
- Length
- About 1,276 pages
- Reported copies
- Tens of millions of copies
- Kind
- Fiction