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Edmund Dantes, unjustly convicted of aiding the exiled Napoleon, escapes after fourteen years of imprisonment and seeks revenge in Paris.
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Penguin AustraliaAn edition of this book was published by Penguin Australia.
Tantor Media2 editions of this book were published by Tantor Media.
Editions: 1400102103, 1400108624
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The Count of Monte Cristo was originally published in France in 1844. It’s set primarily in France in the 1800’s, although we visit other countries also. At the beginning, the main character Edmond Dantes is a young man whose life is looking up. He has promising career prospects and is engaged to a woman he loves. Unfortunately, he also has jealous acquaintances who conspire to prevent him from gaining the things they want for themselves.
I’ll leave the rest of the story a surprise for the few people who don’t already know it anyway, but the story has quite a bit of meat to it. I had thought it would be primarily about the event that happened near the beginning (
The melodrama and coincidences got to be a bit much for me at times, but overall I enjoyed the story and I’m glad I read it. I’m rating it at 3.5 stars and rounding up to 4 on Goodreads. If I manage to get into the mood for a movie anytime soon, I might try watching it to see how the adaptation was handled. It must surely cut out a huge portion of the plot. (