The Count of Monte Cristo

Dec 5, 2025 11:56 PM

Author:Alexandre Dumas

**AS SEEN ON WRITE AROUND THE WORLD WITH RICHARD E GRANT**

A brilliant story of intrigue, retribution, revenge and redemption.

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

'Dumas is a master of ripping yarns full of fearless heroes, poisonous ladies and swashbuckling adventurers' Guardian

Reviews

The greatest of escape stories

—— Guardian

What makes The Count Of Monte Cristo such a superior story is that revenge is not the only emotion driving the plot... it is an almost perfect story - also in the mix are love, friendship, jealousy, faith, education, snobbery and class

—— Sunday Express

The Count of Monte Cristo sustained my sanity and my life. It is a beautiful book. Incarceration coupled with interrogation can play cruel tricks on the mind and many are driven to suicide.The book taught me to hope when I was living at my mental limits

—— Zhuang Zedong, former world table tennis champion and the greatest sportsman in China's history , The Times

One of the most romantic of all novels

—— Mail on Sunday

The Napoleon of story-tellers

—— Washington Post

A work of genius

—— Antonia Fraser , The Times

Dumas's masterpiece presents the true cost of reinvention, in all its painful unrootedness

—— Observer

Jean Plaidy conveys the texture of various patches of the past with such rich complexity

—— Guardian

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