Count of Monte Cristo

<b>Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's <i>The Great American Read</i></b> <p/>A popular bestseller since its publication in 1844 <i>The Count of Monte Cristo</i> is one of the great page-turning thrillers of all time. Set against the tumultuous years of the post-Napoleonic era Alexandre Dumas's grand historical romance recounts the swashbuckling adventures of Edmond Dantès a dashing young sailor falsely accused of treason. The story of his long imprisonment dramatic escape and carefully wrought revenge offers up a vision of France that has become immortal. As Robert Louis Stevenson declared I do not believe there is another volume extant where you can breathe the same unmingled atmosphere of romance.