The Count of Monte Cristo is a novel by French writer Alexandre Dumas. Published in serials in 1884-1885, this book has become one Dumas’ best books besides his other masterpiece, The Three Musketeers. Those two books share some common themes including adventure, justice, and history. This novel is regarded as a classic literary work nowadays. As said by famous critic Luc Sante, "The Count of Monte Cristo has become a fixture of Western civilization's literature, as inescapable and immediately identifiable as Mickey Mouse, Noah's flood, and the story of Little Red Riding Hood."
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Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and becomes determined not only to escape but to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. A huge popular success when it was first serialized in the 1840s, Dumas was inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment when writing his epic tale of suffering and retribution.
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