Alexandre Dumas · 1844 · mediterranean

Alexandre Dumas's great tale of betrayal and revenge, set around the Mediterranean of the 1830s and 40s. The sailor Edmond Dantes, falsely imprisoned in the Chateau d'If off Marseille, escapes after fourteen years, claims a vast hidden treasure on the lonely Isle of Monte Cristo, and returns transformed as the mysterious Count to bring a slow, magnificent reckoning down upon the men who ruined him - from the Roman carnival to the heart of Paris society.

1. 1
   Marseille

   Home from the sea and about to marry Mercedes, the young sailor Edmond Dantes is falsely denounced and arrested on his wedding day.

2. 2
   Chateau d'If

   For fourteen years he is buried in the island fortress, until the dying Abbe Faria teaches him everything and reveals a hidden treasure.

3. 3
   Isle of Monte Cristo

   Escaped at last, he digs up the fortune of the Spadas on the lonely island and is reborn as the Count of Monte Cristo.

4. 4
   Tunis

   In the years of preparation he buys the mute Nubian Ali in the Tunis market, saving him from having his hands cut off - one of a household assembled entirely out of people who owe him their lives.

5. 5
   Janina

   At the Ottoman court he buys Haydee, daughter of Ali Pasha of Janina, sold into slavery after her father's betrayal - and it is her testimony at the trial that destroys Fernand de Morcerf.

6. 6
   Rome

   As the mysterious Count he steps into society at the Roman carnival, saving young Albert de Morcerf from the bandit Luigi Vampa.

7. 7
   Paris

   In Paris he springs his long, patient trap on the three men who destroyed him - Danglars, Mondego, and Villefort.

8. 8
   Marseille

   His vengeance run its course, he comes back to Marseille to repay an old kindness to the Morrel family.

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   Isle of Monte Cristo

   He gives the island and his fortune to two young lovers and sails away toward the East, leaving one counsel behind - wait, and hope.