Le comte de Monte-Cristo, Tome I

Alexandre Dumas

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In 1815 Marseilles, delivered to civil discord, the moment is favorable to the settling of political or private accounts. This is how the sailor Edmond Dantès, on the eve of his wedding, finds himself, without knowing why, arrested and taken to the Château d'If ... Published in 1844-1846, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo was a success which did not deny itself, making it one of the most popular works of world literature. Father Faria, the incredible escape, the treasure thanks to which the good will be rewarded and the traitors punished the fabulous destiny of Edmond Dantès has the simplicity and the force of the great myths. A dazzling storyteller, as at ease in action as in dialogue, Dumas takes us without letting us catch our breath from the cabinet of Louis XVIII to the Mediterranean smugglers, from the Tuscan islands to the catacombs of Rome, then to the Parisian salons where the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo is preparing to accomplish his revenge ...

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