ENGLISH

Count Monte Cristo

By Alexandre Dumas , David Coward

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2008
ISBN
0199219656, 9780199219650
LCC
PQ2226 .A33 2008
Open Library ID
OL10145854M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8431699 bytes)
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Edition
Revised
Pages
1137\1137
Topic
Education
Library
torrents.ru tech collections 2009-11-14
Time added
2010-01-11 02:35:34

Description

One of the most exciting and best-loved novels of all time, The Count of Monte Cristo is a timeless tale of endurance, courage, and revenge. Falsely accused of treason, the young sailor Edmond Dantès is arrested on his wedding day and imprisoned on an island fortress. After years of solitary confinement in a cramped, dank dungeon, he befriends an Italian prisoner who, with his dying breath, reveals the location of a vast treasure on the island of Monte Cristo. Dantès stages a daring and dramatic escape, retrieves this fabulous fortune, and returns to France to exact revenge on his enemies, posing as the Count of Monte Cristo. Dantès pursues his vengeance to the bitter end, only then realizing that he himself is a victim of fate. This newly revised, unabridged translation is as unputdownable now as it was when the novel first appeared. It thoroughly updates the classic translation based on the original serialization and includes a new bibliography and revised notes, plus a lively introduction by David Coward, a prize-winning translator and editor of nine Dumas novels.

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