The Count of Monte Cristo

About this book

Alexandre Dumas's adventure novel, serialised 1844–46 and read here in classic English translation. On the day he is to marry, the young sailor Edmond Dantès is denounced on a false charge and shut away for years in the island prison of the Château d'If. He escapes, recovers a hidden fortune and returns under a new identity to reward those who helped him and to work an elaborate revenge on those who did not. A long, propulsive story of patience, money and justice.