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The Count of Monte Cristo / Alexandre Dumas ; translated and with an introduction and notes by Robin Buss.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Penguin classicsPublisher: London : Penguin, August 27, 2013Description: xxviii, 1276 pages 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Audience:
  • General
  • Any audience
ISBN:
  • 9780141392462 (hbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 843.7 23
LOC classification:
  • PQ2226 A1 2012
Summary: A beautiful new clothbound edition of Alexandre Dumas's classic novel of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of the Château d'If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and becomes determined not only to escape but to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. A huge popular success when it was first serialized in the 1840s, Dumas was inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment when writing his epic tale of suffering and retribution.
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Books John Tomay Memorial Library CLAS CLA DUM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31030100279314

This translation originally published: 2003.

New Book 2022 Winter.

Includes bibliographical references.

A beautiful new clothbound edition of Alexandre Dumas's classic novel of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of the Château d'If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and becomes determined not only to escape but to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. A huge popular success when it was first serialized in the 1840s, Dumas was inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment when writing his epic tale of suffering and retribution.

Translated from the French.

Translated from French.

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