The Count of Monte Cristo
$49.46
- Paperback
1472 pages
- Release Date
3 August 2009
Summary
‘Dumas is a master of ripping yarns full of fearless heroes, poisonous ladies and swashbuckling adventurers.’ The Guardian
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 hi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099518945 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099518945 |
| Author: | Alexandre Dumas |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 1472 |
| Release Date: | 3 August 2009 |
| Weight: | 940g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 62mm |
| Series: | Vintage Classics |
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Critics Review
“The Napoleon of storytellers.”
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 *
About The Author
Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas was born on 24 July 1802 in Villers-Cotterats near Paris. His father, who was the son of a French marquis and a former slave, died when Alexandre was three years old. He was brought up by his mother and later moved to Paris to work as a clerk. He wrote plays, travel books, children’s stories and memoirs as well as novels and was a keen traveller and cook. His most famous works are The Three Musketeers (1844) and The Count of Monte Cristo (1844-5). Alexandre Dumas died on 5 December 1870.
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