Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
A popular bestseller since its publication in 1844, The Count of Monte Cristo 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.”
- ISBN10 1840224649
- ISBN13 9781840224641
- Publish Date November 2003 (first published September 1968)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 27 April 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Wordsworth Editions Ltd
- Edition Special edition
- Format Paperback
- Language English