![]() ![]() ![]() With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Check out our the count of monte cristo first edition selection for the very best in unique or custom, handmade pieces from our literature & fiction shops. This edition includes an introduction, explanatory notes and suggestions for further reading.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Robin Buss’s lively English translation is complete and unabridged, and remains faithful to the style of Dumas’s original. 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. ![]() It is one of the authors more popular works, along with The Three Musketeers. 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. The Count of Monte Cristo ( French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas ( père) completed in 1844. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. “On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.” Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read ![]()
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