The Count of Monte Cristo
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING PIERRE NINEY • Dumas’s epic and timeless novel of justice, retribution, and self-discovery
On the eve of his wedding, a young sailor named Edmond Dantès is wrongly accused of treason and imprisoned for life in the Château d’If, a reputedly impregnable island fortress. After a daring escape, Dantès unearths a treasure revealed to him by another prisoner and devotes the rest of his life to tracking down and punishing the enemies who wronged him, in disguise as the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo.
Set against the dramatic upheavals of the years after Napoleon, The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the most enduringly popular adventure novels ever written.
On the eve of his wedding, a young sailor named Edmond Dantès is wrongly accused of treason and imprisoned for life in the Château d’If, a reputedly impregnable island fortress. After a daring escape, Dantès unearths a treasure revealed to him by another prisoner and devotes the rest of his life to tracking down and punishing the enemies who wronged him, in disguise as the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo.
Set against the dramatic upheavals of the years after Napoleon, The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the most enduringly popular adventure novels ever written.
