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Genre/Form: | Classic Historical fiction Action and adventure fiction Fiction History Adventure fiction Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Alexandre Dumas; Robin Buss |
ISBN: | 9780140449266 0140449264 9780679601999 0679601996 9780307271129 0307271129 |
OCLC Number: | 51272321 |
Language Note: | Translated from the French. |
Awards: | Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003 Short-listed for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003 |
Description: | xxviii, 1276 pages ; 20 cm. |
Contents: | Chronology -- Introduction -- Further reading -- Note on the text -- Count of Monte Cristo -- Notes. |
Series Title: | Penguin classics. |
Other Titles: | Comte de Monte-Cristo. |
Responsibility: | Alexandre Dumas (père) ; translated and with an introduction and notes by Robin Buss. |
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Abstract:
Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed Edmond Dantes spends fourteen bitter years imprisoned in grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on Isle of Monte Cristo and becomes determined not only to escape, but also to unearth treasure and use it to plot destruction of men responsive for his incarceration.
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