The Count of Monte Cristo PDF

Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantès is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. Dumas’ epic tale of suffering and retribution, inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, was a huge popular success when it was first serialized in the 1840s.

Robin Buss’s lively English translation is complete and unabridged, and remains faithful to the style of Dumas’s original. This edition includes an introduction, explanatory notes and suggestions for further reading.

 

Author:Alexandre Dumas
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The plot of “The Count of Monte Cristo” was extracted by Alexandre Dumas from the archives of Paris police. As a result, under the pen of the brilliant master of historical adventure genre the true life of Francois Picot turned into a fascinating story of Edmond Dantes, a prisoner of the Chateau d’If. After a brave escape from the Chateau, he returns to his hometown to do justice – that is to payback to those who destroyed his life earlier. A thick novel that do not let a reader go until the last page, “The Count of Monte Cristo” is a classic novel that is really worth re-reading.

 

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