The Count of Monte Cristo

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Penguin, 05/04/2005 - 528 páginas
In his rousing adventure story, Alexandre Dumas employs all the elements of compelling drama—suspense, intrigue, love, vengeance, and the triumph of good over evil—that contribute to this classic novel’s irresistible and timeless appeal.

In the post-Napoleonic era, a young sailor from Marseilles is poised to become captain of his own ship and marry his beloved. But jealous enemies provoke his arrest, condemning Edmond Dantès to lifelong imprisonment in the infamous Château d’If. There, his sole companion reveals his secret plan to escape, as well as the location of a trove of riches hidden on a remote island. Determined to avenge himself against the men that conspired to destroy him, the newly free Edmond uses the treasure to forge a mysterious and powerful new identity: the Count of Monte Cristo.
 

Índice

Introduction
v
List or Characters
xvi
MarseillesThe Arrival
1
Father and Son
8
The Catalans
12
The Betnrotnal Feast
19
The Deputy Procureur Du Roi
26
Tne Examination
30
Toxicology
236
Tne Rise and Fall or Stocks
244
Pyramus and Thisbe
251
M Noirtier De Villefort
257
Tke Will
263
The Telegraph
269
The Dinner
274
A Conjugal Scene
283

The Château dIf
37
Villefort ana Mercédès
44
The Little Cabinet or the Tuileries
47
Tke Ogre
52
The Hundred Days
55
Numbers 34 and 27
58
An Italian Scholar
67
The Treasure
81
Tke Third Attack
91
The Cemetery of the Chateau Dif
96
The Isle or Tiboulen
99
The Isle of Monte Cristo
108
The Treasure Cave
112
The Stranger
117
The Pont du Gard Inn
120
Caderousses Story
124
The Prison Register
133
Morrel ana Son
138
The Fifth of September
148
Roman Bandits
155
The Apparition
160
The Carnival at Rome
168
The Catacombs or St Sebastian
179
The Guests
193
Tne Presentation
207
Unlimited Credit
214
The Pair or Dappled Greys
220
Haydee
227
The Morrel Family
230
Matrimonial Plans
288
A Summer Ball
293
Mme de SaintMéran
307
The Promise
312
Minutes of tne Proceedings
328
The Progress or Cavalcanti Junior
341
Haydees Story
347
Tne Report From Janina
363
The Lemonade
369
The Accusation
379
The Trial
383
The Challenge
392
The Insult
396
Tke Night
402
The Duel
408
Revenge
411
Valentine
419
The Secret Door
430
The Apparition Again
435
The Serpent
439
Maximilian
443
Danglars Signature
450
Consolation
455
Separation
465
The Judge
476
Expiation
484
The Departure
489
The Fifth of October
501
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Alexandre Dumas was born July 24, 1802, at Villiers-Cotterets, France, the son of Napoleon's famous mulatto general, Thomas-Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie. Dumas began writing at an early age and saw his first success in a play he wrote entitled Henri III et sa Cour (1829). A prolific author, Dumas was also an adventurer and took part in the Revolution of 1830. Dumas is most famous for his brilliant historical novels, which he wrote with collaborators, mainly Auguste Maquet, and which were serialized in the popular press of the day. His most popular works are The Three Musketeers (1844), The Count of Monte Cristo (1844-45), and The Man in the Iron Mask (1848-50). Dumas made and lost several fortunes, and died penniless on December 5, 1870.

Roger Celestin is a professor of French and comparative literature at the University of Connecticut. He has published on French authors from the Renaissance to the twentieth century and is coeditor of the journal Contemporary French & Francophone Studies/SITES.

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