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The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by the French writer Alexandre Dumas. It was serialised from 1844 to 1846, then published in book form in 1846. It is one of his most popular works, along with The Three Musketeers (1844) and Man in the Iron Mask (1850). Like many of his novels, it was expanded from plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter, Auguste Maquet. It is regarded as a classic of French and world literature.
The novel is set in France, Italy, and islands in the Mediterranean Sea during the historical events of 1815–1839, the era of the Bourbon Restoration through the reign of Louis Philippe I. It begins on the day when Napoleon left his first island of exile, Elba, beginning the Hundred Days period of his return to power. The historical setting is fundamental to the narrative. The Count of Monte Cristo explores themes of hope, justice, vengeance, mercy and forgiveness.
Edmond Dantès is a French nineteen-year-old first mate of a merchant ship. Arriving home from a voyage and set to marry his fiancée, Mercédès, he is falsely accused of treason. He is arrested and imprisoned without trial at the Château d'If, a grim island fortress off Marseille. A fellow prisoner, Abbé Faria, correctly deduces that Dantès's romantic rival Fernand Mondego, his envious crewmate Danglars and the double-dealing magistrate De Villefort are responsible for his imprisonment. Over the course of their long imprisonment, Faria educates the initially illiterate Dantès and, knowing himself close to death, inspires him to retrieve for himself a cache of treasure Faria had discovered. After Faria dies, Dantès escapes and finds the treasure. Posing as a member of nobility, he concocts the title Count of Monte Cristo. Fabulously wealthy, powerful and mysterious, he enters the world of Parisian high society in the 1830s focused on vengeance.
On the day in 1815 when Napoleon escapes from Elba, first mate Edmond Dantès sails the Pharaon into Marseille after the death of the captain, Leclère. On his deathbed, Leclère charged Dantès to deliver a package to General Bertrand (exiled with Napoleon) and a letter from Elba to Noirtier, a Bonapartist in Paris.
The ship's owner, Morrel, decides to promote Dantès to captain. Dantès's crewmate Danglars is jealous of this rapid promotion. On the eve of Dantès's wedding to his Catalan fiancée, Mercédès, Danglars meets Fernand Mondego, Mercédès's cousin and a rival for her affections. Fernand and Danglars hatch a plot to anonymously accuse Dantès of being a Bonapartist. Dantès's neighbour Caderousse is present; he too is jealous of Dantès, and although he objects to the plot, he becomes too drunk to prevent it. When Dantès is arrested on his wedding day, the cowardly Caderousse stays silent.
Villefort, the deputy crown prosecutor in Marseille, is Noirtier's son. Villefort knows his political career would be ruined if it were known that his father is a Bonapartist, so Villefort destroys the letter and silences Dantès by sentencing him without trial to life imprisonment.
After six years of solitary imprisonment in the Château d'If, Dantès is on the verge of suicide. However, another prisoner, the Abbé Faria, an Italian scholarly priest, digs an escape tunnel that mistakenly ends in Dantès's cell. The Abbé helps Dantès to deduce the culprits of his imprisonment. Over the next eight years, Faria educates Dantès in languages, history, culture, mathematics, chemistry, medicine, and science. Knowing himself to be close to death from catalepsy and having grown fond of his pupil, Faria tells Dantès the location of a vast treasure hidden on the island of Monte Cristo. When Faria dies, Dantès takes Faria's place in the burial sack, which guards throw into the sea.
Dantès cuts through the sack and swims to a nearby island, where, claiming to be a shipwrecked sailor, he is rescued by Genoese smugglers. Months later, he locates and retrieves the treasure; he later purchases the island of Monte Cristo and the title of count from the Tuscan government.
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The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by the French writer Alexandre Dumas. It was serialised from 1844 to 1846, then published in book form in 1846. It is one of his most popular works, along with The Three Musketeers (1844) and Man in the Iron Mask (1850). Like many of his novels, it was expanded from plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter, Auguste Maquet. It is regarded as a classic of French and world literature.
The novel is set in France, Italy, and islands in the Mediterranean Sea during the historical events of 1815–1839, the era of the Bourbon Restoration through the reign of Louis Philippe I. It begins on the day when Napoleon left his first island of exile, Elba, beginning the Hundred Days period of his return to power. The historical setting is fundamental to the narrative. The Count of Monte Cristo explores themes of hope, justice, vengeance, mercy and forgiveness.
Edmond Dantès is a French nineteen-year-old first mate of a merchant ship. Arriving home from a voyage and set to marry his fiancée, Mercédès, he is falsely accused of treason. He is arrested and imprisoned without trial at the Château d'If, a grim island fortress off Marseille. A fellow prisoner, Abbé Faria, correctly deduces that Dantès's romantic rival Fernand Mondego, his envious crewmate Danglars and the double-dealing magistrate De Villefort are responsible for his imprisonment. Over the course of their long imprisonment, Faria educates the initially illiterate Dantès and, knowing himself close to death, inspires him to retrieve for himself a cache of treasure Faria had discovered. After Faria dies, Dantès escapes and finds the treasure. Posing as a member of nobility, he concocts the title Count of Monte Cristo. Fabulously wealthy, powerful and mysterious, he enters the world of Parisian high society in the 1830s focused on vengeance.
On the day in 1815 when Napoleon escapes from Elba, first mate Edmond Dantès sails the Pharaon into Marseille after the death of the captain, Leclère. On his deathbed, Leclère charged Dantès to deliver a package to General Bertrand (exiled with Napoleon) and a letter from Elba to Noirtier, a Bonapartist in Paris.
The ship's owner, Morrel, decides to promote Dantès to captain. Dantès's crewmate Danglars is jealous of this rapid promotion. On the eve of Dantès's wedding to his Catalan fiancée, Mercédès, Danglars meets Fernand Mondego, Mercédès's cousin and a rival for her affections. Fernand and Danglars hatch a plot to anonymously accuse Dantès of being a Bonapartist. Dantès's neighbour Caderousse is present; he too is jealous of Dantès, and although he objects to the plot, he becomes too drunk to prevent it. When Dantès is arrested on his wedding day, the cowardly Caderousse stays silent.
Villefort, the deputy crown prosecutor in Marseille, is Noirtier's son. Villefort knows his political career would be ruined if it were known that his father is a Bonapartist, so Villefort destroys the letter and silences Dantès by sentencing him without trial to life imprisonment.
After six years of solitary imprisonment in the Château d'If, Dantès is on the verge of suicide. However, another prisoner, the Abbé Faria, an Italian scholarly priest, digs an escape tunnel that mistakenly ends in Dantès's cell. The Abbé helps Dantès to deduce the culprits of his imprisonment. Over the next eight years, Faria educates Dantès in languages, history, culture, mathematics, chemistry, medicine, and science. Knowing himself to be close to death from catalepsy and having grown fond of his pupil, Faria tells Dantès the location of a vast treasure hidden on the island of Monte Cristo. When Faria dies, Dantès takes Faria's place in the burial sack, which guards throw into the sea.
Dantès cuts through the sack and swims to a nearby island, where, claiming to be a shipwrecked sailor, he is rescued by Genoese smugglers. Months later, he locates and retrieves the treasure; he later purchases the island of Monte Cristo and the title of count from the Tuscan government.