Count of Monte Cristo - New Curriculum Recommended Reading - Green Apple Teenager's Must-Read Classics

Author: Alexandre Dumas
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: The Count of Monte Cristo is Alexandre Dumas's classic story, telling the tale of an innocent man who is deliberately framed and wrongly imprisoned. However, he executes a meticulously planned revenge against those who had betrayed him. The lively young sailor Edmond Dantès is an honest and upright young man. But his peaceful life and plan to marry the beautiful Mercedes are suddenly shattered. His closest friend Fernand also wants to marry Mercedes and has been deceiving Dantès. This "good friend" leads Dantès to an illegal trial and imprisons him in the notorious Ile d'If fortress prison. Edmond Dantès spends thirteen years of nightmare life there. Every day, he struggles with how his life's journey could turn so drastically. He decides to abandon all the "right" and "wrong" standards he once believed in and pursue full revenge against those who had betrayed him. With the help of his equally innocent fellow prisoners, Dantès plots and successfully escapes from the prison. From then on, Edmond Dantès becomes a mysterious and wealthy "Count of Monte Cristo." Using his wit and cruelty, Dantès cleverly infiltrates French high society and systematically destroys those who had manipulated and enslaved him.