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  • Published: 16 June 2020
  • ISBN: 9780593081501
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 1200
  • RRP: $40.00

The Count of Monte Cristo




A Vintage Classics edition of Dumas's epic tale of injustice and revenge--one of the most exciting and celebrated mystery novels ever written.

On the eve of his wedding, a young sailor named Edmond Dantès is wrongly accused of treason and imprisoned for life in the Château d’If, a reputedly impregnable island fortress. After a daring escape, Dantès unearths a treasure revealed to him by another prisoner and devotes the rest of his life to tracking down and punishing the enemies who wronged him, in disguise as the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo. Set against the dramatic upheavals of the years after Napoleon, Alexandre Dumas’s epic tale of betrayal and revenge is one of the most thrilling and enduringly popular adventure novels ever written.

  • Published: 16 June 2020
  • ISBN: 9780593081501
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 1200
  • RRP: $40.00

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About the author

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas was a French playwright, historian and prolific novelist, penning a string of successful books including The Three Musketeers (1844), The Count of Monte Cristo (1845), and Twenty Years After(1845). His novels have been translated into a hundred different languages and inspired over two hundred films. In his day Dumas was as famous for his financial irresponsibility and flamboyant lifestyle as for his writing. Dumas died in 1870.

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Praise for The Count of Monte Cristo

"Dumas was . . . a summit of art. Nobody ever could, or did, or will improve upon Dumas's romances and plays."—George Bernard Shaw