The Count of Monte Cristo

Imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, Edmond Dantes spends fourteen bitter years in a dungeon. When his daring escape plan works he uses all he has learned during his incarceration to mastermind an elaborate plan of revenge that will bring punishment to those responsible for his fate. No longer the naive sailor who disappeared into the dark fortress all those years ago, he reinvents himself as the powerful Count of Monte Cristo.

Alexandre Dumas, père was one of the most prolific and most popular French authors of the 19th century. Without ever attaining indisputable literary merit, Dumas succeeded in gaining a great reputation first as a dramatist and then as a historical novelist, especially for such works as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.