The Count of Monte Cristo

Edmond Dantes is a young sailor who is unjustly accused of aiding the exiled Napoleon. As punishment he is sentenced to life imprisonment in a French island fortress. After 14 years Dantes makes a darling escape by taking the place of a dead companion; he is sewn into a burial shroud and thrown into the sea. Having learned from his dead prison mate of a vast treasure on the island of Monte-Cristo Dantes eventually makes his way there to uncover and claim it. The greatest tale of betrayal adventure and revenge ever written The Count of Monte Cristo continues to dazzle readers with its thrilling and memorable scenes including Dantes’s miraculous escape from prison his amazing discovery of a vast hidden treasure and his transformation into the mysterious and wealthy Count of Monte Cristo a man whose astonishing thirst for vengeance is as cruel as it is just.