The Count of Monte Cristo

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.

I Marseilles - the Arrival
II Father and Son
III The Catalans
IV Conspiracy
V The Marriage Feast
VI The Deputy Procureur du Roi
VII The Examination
VIII The Chateau d'If
IX The Evening of the Betrothal
X The King's Closet at the Tuileries
XI The Corsican Ogre
XII Father and Son
XIII The Hundred Days
XIV The Two Prisoners
XV Number 34 and Number 27
XVI A Learned Italian
XVII The Abbe's Chamber
XVIII The Treasure
XIX The Third Attack
XX The Cemetery of the Chateau d'If
XXI The Island of Tiboulen
XXII The Smugglers
XXIII The Island of Monte Cristo
XXIV The Secret Cave
XXV The Unknown
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