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The Count of Monte Cristo / Alexandre Dumas.

By: Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Wordsworth classics: Publisher: Ware : Wordsworth Editions, 1997Description: 875 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 1853267333.Subject(s): Adventure stories | France -- History -- 19th century -- FictionDDC classification: 843.8
Contents:
Marseilles - the Arrival -- Father and Son -- The Catalans -- Conspiracy -- The marriage feast -- The deputy procurer du Roi -- The Examination -- The Chateau d'If -- The Evening of the Betrothal -- The King's Closet at the Tuileries -- The Corsican Ogre -- Father and Son -- The Hundred Days -- The Two Prisoners -- Number 34 and Number 27 -- A learned Italian -- The Abbe's Chamber -- The Treasure -- The Third attack -- The cemetery of the Chateau d'If -- The Island of Tiboulen -- The smugglers -- The Island of Monte Cristo -- The Secret Cave -- The unknown -- The Pont du Gard Inn -- The Story -- The Prison Register -- The House of Morrel & Son -- The fifth of September -- Italy: Sinbad the Sailor -- The Waking -- Roman Bandits -- The Collosseum -- La Mazzolata -- The Carnival at Rome -- The Catacombs of Saint Sebastian -- The Compact -- The Guests -- The Breakfast -- The Presentation -- Monsieur Bertuccio -- The House at Auteuil -- The Vendetta -- The rain of blood -- Unlimited Credit -- The Dappled Greys -- Ideology -- Haidee -- The Morrel Family -- Pyramus and Thishe -- Toxicology -- Robert le diable -- A flurry of Stocks -- Major Cavalcanti -- Andrea Cavalcanti -- In the Lucerne Patch -- M. Nortier de Villefort -- The Will -- The Telegraph -- How a gardener may get rid of the Dornice that eat his peaches -- Ghosts -- The dinner -- The beggar -- A conjugal Scene -- Matrimonial Projects -- At the office of the King's Attorney -- A Summer ball -- The inquiry -- The ball -- Bread and Salt -- Madame de Saint-Meran -- The Promise -- The Villefort family Vault -- A Signed Statement -- Progress of Cavalcanti the Younger -- Haidee -- We hear from Yanina -- The lemonade -- The Accusation -- The room of the retired baker -- The burglary -- The hand of God -- Beauchamp -- The journey -- The Trial -- The Challenge -- The insult -- A Noctural Interview -- The meeting -- Mother and Son -- The Suicide -- Valentine -- Maximilian's Avowal -- Father and Daughter -- The Contract -- The departure for Belgium -- The bell and bottle tavern -- The law -- The Apparition -- Locusts -- Valentine -- Maximilan -- Dangler's Signature -- The Cemetery of Pere-la-Chaise -- Dividing the Proceeds -- The Lions' Den -- The Judge -- The Assizes -- The Indicament -- The Expiation -- The Departure -- The Past -- Peppino -- Luigi Vampa's Bill of Fare -- The Pardon -- The fifth of October.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury.

The story of Edmund Dantes, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, is told with consummate skill. The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of providence. In his campaign of vengeance, he becomes an anonymous agent of fate.

The sensational narrative of intrigue, betrayal, escape, and triumphant revenge moves at a cracking pace. Dumas' novel presents a powerful conflict between good and evil embodied in an epic saga of rich diversity that is complicated by the hero's ultimate discomfort with the hubristic implication of his own actions.

Our edition is based on the most popular and enduring translation first published by Chapman and Hall in 1846. The name of the translator was never revealed.

Marseilles - the Arrival -- Father and Son -- The Catalans -- Conspiracy -- The marriage feast -- The deputy procurer du Roi -- The Examination -- The Chateau d'If -- The Evening of the Betrothal -- The King's Closet at the Tuileries -- The Corsican Ogre -- Father and Son -- The Hundred Days -- The Two Prisoners -- Number 34 and Number 27 -- A learned Italian -- The Abbe's Chamber -- The Treasure -- The Third attack -- The cemetery of the Chateau d'If -- The Island of Tiboulen -- The smugglers -- The Island of Monte Cristo -- The Secret Cave -- The unknown -- The Pont du Gard Inn -- The Story -- The Prison Register -- The House of Morrel & Son -- The fifth of September -- Italy: Sinbad the Sailor -- The Waking -- Roman Bandits -- The Collosseum -- La Mazzolata -- The Carnival at Rome -- The Catacombs of Saint Sebastian -- The Compact -- The Guests -- The Breakfast -- The Presentation -- Monsieur Bertuccio -- The House at Auteuil -- The Vendetta -- The rain of blood -- Unlimited Credit -- The Dappled Greys -- Ideology -- Haidee -- The Morrel Family -- Pyramus and Thishe -- Toxicology -- Robert le diable -- A flurry of Stocks -- Major Cavalcanti -- Andrea Cavalcanti -- In the Lucerne Patch -- M. Nortier de Villefort -- The Will -- The Telegraph -- How a gardener may get rid of the Dornice that eat his peaches -- Ghosts -- The dinner -- The beggar -- A conjugal Scene -- Matrimonial Projects -- At the office of the King's Attorney -- A Summer ball -- The inquiry -- The ball -- Bread and Salt -- Madame de Saint-Meran -- The Promise -- The Villefort family Vault -- A Signed Statement -- Progress of Cavalcanti the Younger -- Haidee -- We hear from Yanina -- The lemonade -- The Accusation -- The room of the retired baker -- The burglary -- The hand of God -- Beauchamp -- The journey -- The Trial -- The Challenge -- The insult -- A Noctural Interview -- The meeting -- Mother and Son -- The Suicide -- Valentine -- Maximilian's Avowal -- Father and Daughter -- The Contract -- The departure for Belgium -- The bell and bottle tavern -- The law -- The Apparition -- Locusts -- Valentine -- Maximilan -- Dangler's Signature -- The Cemetery of Pere-la-Chaise -- Dividing the Proceeds -- The Lions' Den -- The Judge -- The Assizes -- The Indicament -- The Expiation -- The Departure -- The Past -- Peppino -- Luigi Vampa's Bill of Fare -- The Pardon -- The fifth of October.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction (p. ix)
  • Chronology of Alexandre Dumas's Life and Work (p. xvii)
  • Historical Context of The Count of Monte Cristo (p. xix)
  • I Marseilles--The Arrival (p. 1)
  • II Father and Son (p. 10)
  • III The Catalans (p. 15)
  • IV The Betrothal Feast (p. 23)
  • V The Deputy Procureur du Roi (p. 31)
  • VI The Examination (p. 36)
  • VII The Chateau d'If (p. 45)
  • VIII Villefort and Mercedes (p. 54)
  • IX The Little Cabinet of the Tuileries (p. 58)
  • X The Ogre (p. 64)
  • XI The Hundred Days (p. 68)
  • XII Numbers 34 and 27 (p. 72)
  • XIII An Italian Scholar (p. 83)
  • XIV The Treasure (p. 100)
  • XV The Third Attack (p. 112)
  • XVI The Cemetery of the Chateau d'If (p. 118)
  • XVII The Isle of Tiboulen (p. 122)
  • XVIII The Isle of Monte Cristo (p. 133)
  • XIX The Treasure Cave (p. 138)
  • XX The Stranger (p. 145)
  • XXI The Pont du Gard Inn (p. 148)
  • XXII Caderousse's Story (p. 154)
  • XXIII The Prison Register (p. 165)
  • XXIV Morrel and Son (p. 171)
  • XXV The Fifth of September (p. 183)
  • XXVI Roman Bandits (p. 192)
  • XXVII The Apparition (p. 198)
  • XXVIII The Carnival at Rome (p. 208)
  • XXIX The Catacombs of St Sebastian (p. 221)
  • XXX The Guests (p. 237)
  • XXXI The Presentation (p. 254)
  • XXXII Unlimited Credit (p. 263)
  • XXXIII The Pair of Dappled Greys (p. 271)
  • XXXIV Haydee (p. 279)
  • XXXV The Morrel Family (p. 284)
  • XXXVI Toxicology (p. 290)
  • XXXVII The Rise and Fall of Stocks (p. 300)
  • XXXVIII Pyramus and Thisbe (p. 308)
  • XXXIX M. Noirtier de Villefort (p. 316)
  • XL The Will (p. 323)
  • XLI The Telegraph (p. 331)
  • XLII The Dinner (p. 337)
  • XLIII A Conjugal Scene (p. 348)
  • XLIV Matrimonial Plans (p. 355)
  • XLV A Summer Ball (p. 361)
  • XLVI Mme de Saint-Meran (p. 377)
  • XLVII The Promise (p. 383)
  • XLVIII Minutes of the Proceedings (p. 402)
  • XLIX The Progress of Cavalcanti Junior (p. 419)
  • L Haydee's Story (p. 426)
  • LI The Report from Janina (p. 444)
  • LII The Lemonade (p. 452)
  • LIII The Accusation (p. 463)
  • LIV The Trial (p. 468)
  • LV The Challenge (p. 479)
  • LVI The Insult (p. 484)
  • LVII The Night (p. 491)
  • LVIII The Duel (p. 498)
  • LIX Revenge (p. 502)
  • LX Valentine (p. 512)
  • LXI The Secret Door (p. 525)
  • LXII The Apparition Again (p. 531)
  • LXIII The Serpent (p. 537)
  • LXIV Maximilian (p. 542)
  • LXV Danglars' Signature (p. 550)
  • LXVI Consolation (p. 557)
  • LXVII Separation (p. 568)
  • LXVIII The Judge (p. 582)
  • LXIX Expiation (p. 591)
  • LXX The Departure (p. 597)
  • LXXI The Fifth of October (p. 611)
  • Notes (p. 621)
  • Interpretive Notes (p. 637)
  • Critical Excerpts (p. 647)
  • Questions for Discussion (p. 661)
  • Suggestions for the Interested Reader (p. 663)

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