On the day of his wedding, Edmond Dantes, master mariner, is arrested in Marseille on trumped-up charges and spirited away to the cellars of the Chateau d'If, an impregnable sea fortress in which he is imprisoned indefinitely. Escaping from the chateau by a series of daring manoeuvres, he unearths a great treasure on the island of Monte Cristo, buried there by a former fellow prisoner who bequeaths to him the secret of its whereabouts. Thus armed with unimaginable wealth and embittered by his long imprisonment, he resolves to devote his life to tracking down and punishing those responsible.
This classic nineteenth-century translation has been revised and updated by Peter Washington, with an introduction by award-winning novelist Umberto Eco.
| ISBN: | 9781841593203 |
| Publication date: | 7th May 2009 |
| Author: | Alexandre Dumas |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 1188 pages |
| Series: | Everyman's Library |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary Historical adventure fiction Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
I recommend everyone who can get their hands on the book to read it.
Imagine yourself walking through the harbour of Marseille, a bright future ahead, to be captain of the Pharaon, unbeknown to you that your close ones are plotting your downfall and that you have years of terror and torture ahead. This is the exact feeling Edmond Dantes had, happy as possibly can be, the way to meet his fiancée, Mercedes. The previous captain of the ship, M. Leclere, passed in agony during the voyage of the Pharaon due to brain fever. Naturally, being the first mate, Dantes takes control of the ship. The poor 19-year-old just wanted to fulfil the last wishes of late Captain Leclere and stopped at the Island of Elba (Napoleon Bonaparte’s retreat) to receive a packet, whose contents were unknown to him, and deliver it to a Bonapartist, Noirtier.... Read Full Review