The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - Book 12 - Volume 5, Part 1

The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - Book 12 - Volume 5, Part 1

Title: The Count of Monte Cristo

Overview: 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. It is one of the author's more popular works, along with The Three Musketeers. Like many of his novels, it was expanded from plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter Auguste Maquet. The story takes place in France, Italy, and islands in the Mediterranean during the historical events of 1815–1839: the era of the Bourbon Restoration through the reign of Louis-Philippe of France. It begins on the day that Napoleon left his first island of exile, Elba, beginning the Hundred Days period when Napoleon returned to power. The historical setting is a fundamental element of the book, an adventure story centrally concerned with themes of hope, justice, vengeance, mercy, and forgiveness. It centers on a man who is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes from jail, acquires a fortune, and sets about exacting revenge on those responsible for his imprisonment. Before he can marry his fiancée Mercédès, Edmond Dantès, a nineteen-year-old Frenchman, and first mate of the Pharaon, is falsely accused of treason, arrested, and imprisoned without trial in the Château d'If, a grim island fortress off Marseille. A fellow prisoner, Abbé Faria, correctly deduces that his jealous rival Fernand Mondego, envious crewmate Danglars, and double-dealing Magistrate De Villefort turned him in. Faria inspires his escape and guides him to a fortune in treasure. As the powerful and mysterious Count of Monte Cristo (Italy), Dantès arrives from the Orient to enter the fashionable Parisian world of the 1830s and avenge himself on the men who conspired to destroy him. The book is considered a literary classic today. According to Lucy Sante, "The Count of Monte Cristo has become a fixture of Western civilization's literature, as inescapable and immediately identifiable as Mickey Mouse, and the story of Little Red Riding Hood."

Published: 1888

List: 100 Classic Book Collections, Readers' Choice Collections, Cristo #18

Author: Alexandre Dumas

Translator: George Routledge & Sons

Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction

Episode: The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - Book 12 - Volume 5, Part 1

Volume: 5 of 5

Part: 1 of 4

Length Part: 1:51:06

Episodes Volume: 96 - 100 of 117

Book: 12

Length Book: 54:16:11

Episodes Book: 96 - 100 of 117

Narrator: David Clarke

Language: English

Rated: Guidance Suggested

Edition: Unabridged Audiobook

Keywords: Alexandre Dumas, betrayal, forgiveness, justice, mercy, redemption, revenge

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