The Count of Monte Cristo - Abridged

Informationen zum Autor Alexandre Dumas was born in 1802. After a childhood of extreme poverty, he took work as a clerk, and met the renowned actor Talma, and began to write short pieces for the theatre. After twenty years of success as a playwright, Dumas turned his hand to novel-writing, and penned such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo (1844), La Reine Margot (1845) and The Black Tulip (1850). After enduring a short period of bankruptcy, Dumas began to travel extensively, still keeping up a prodigious output of journalism, short fiction and novels. He fathered an illegitimate child, also called Alexandre, who would grow up to write La Dame aux Camélias. He died in Dieppe in 1870. Klappentext The Count of Monte Cristo is the ultimate novel of retribution. Based on a true story! it recounts the story of Edouard Dantes! his betrayal! and imprisonment in the sinister Chateau d'If. Years later! Paris is intrigued by the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo! who bursts onto the Paris social scene with his millions. He encounters the three principal betrayers of Dantes who have prospered in the post-Napoleonic boom and! one by one! their lives fall apart. The book was a huge! popular success when it was first serialized in 1844! and remains the greatest tale of revenge. Zusammenfassung This classic adventure, set in nineteenth-century France and Italy, tells the story of Edmund Dants, a young man falsely imprisoned who eventually finds himself in a position of power and able to seek his revenge against those who plotted against him. Eventually he begins to question his obsessive search for revenge. This edition has been sensitively abridged. With an Afterword by Marcus Clapham.

Product details

• Authors: Alexandre Dumas
• Assisted by: Marcus Clapham (Introduction)
• Publisher: Collector's Library
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.02.2004
• EAN: 9781904633365
• ISBN: 978-1-904633-36-5
• No. of pages: 1152
• Dimensions: 105 mm x 158 mm x 35 mm
• Series: Collector's Library; Macmillan Collector's Library; Collector's Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; France, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Action & Adventure, Historical adventure, Fiction in translation, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Historical adventure fiction, Fiction: general and literary, C 1700 To C 1800, Adventure / action fiction