The Count of Monte Cristo

Written by Alexandre Dumas · Adapted by Robin Waterfield

Arrested on his wedding day, a young sailor escapes prison to hunt his betrayers.

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400 pages· HL560L· AR 4.7 · 2 AR pts

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Robin Waterfield's abridgement of Alexandre Dumas's classic. Falsely accused of treason, young sailor Edmond Dantès is arrested on his wedding day and locked in the island fortress of the Château d'If. After a dramatic escape he finds the fabulous treasure of Monte Cristo and sets out to catch up with his enemies, pursuing his vengeance to the bitter end.

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The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the great thrillers of all time. In 1853 William Thackeray wrote to a friend: ‘began to read Monte Cristo at six one morning and never stopped till eleven at night.’. Falsely accused of treason, the young sailor Edmund Dantes is arrested on his wedding day and imprisoned in the island fortress of the Chateau d’If. After staging a dramatic escape, he sets out to discover the fabulous treasure of Monte Cristo and catch up with his enemies. A novel of enormous tension and excitement, Monte Cristo is also a tale of obsession and revenge. Believing himself to be an ‘Angel of Providence’, Dantes pursues his vengeance to the bitter end, only then realizing that he himself is a victim of fate.

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