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The Count of Monte Cristois an adventure novel byAlexandre Dumas. A man’s gifted life is changed overnight from the height of happiness to rigorous imprisonment. Edmond Dantès who is fortunate enough to lead a wonderful life with his personal & professional success. Soon to become a captain of the ship, he is engaged to beautiful and young Mercedes.
Framed by his envious friends, co-workers and neighbors, he has been charged for political reasons while he was carrying a letter to one of the Bonapartists. The public prosecutor knowing his innocence is about to set him free. However he came to know the letter carried by him was intended to be delivered to none other than his father. He realizes this could make himself into trouble and plot against Edmond and send him to prison for ever.
In the prison Edmond meets an intellectual and gathers lot of knowledge from him, including information about a hidden treasure in the island of Monte Cristo. The death of the intellectual and the incidents preceding his cremation opened his way to free from prison and he unearths the treasure from the island. The rest of the story is narrated of his revenge against those people, who made his life miserable by sending him to prison.
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VOLUME FIVE
FOOTNOTES: VOLUME ONE
O n the 24th of February, 1815, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding t…
W e will leave Danglars struggling with the demon of hatred, and endeavoring to insinuate in the ear of the shipowner some evil suspicions against his comrade, and follow Dantès, who, after having tra…
B eyond a bare, weather-worn wall, about a hundred paces from the spot where the two friends sat looking and listening as they drank their wine, was the village of the Catalans. Long ago this mysterio…
D anglars followed Edmond and Mercédès with his eyes until the two lovers disappeared behind one of the angles of Fort Saint Nicolas; then, turning round, he perceived Fernand, who had fallen, pale an…
T he morning’s sun rose clear and resplendent, touching the foamy waves into a network of ruby-tinted light. The feast had been made ready on the second floor at La Réserve, with whose arbor the read…
I t was about six o’clock in the evening; an opal-colored light, through which an autumnal sun shed its golden rays, de…
T he next day Danglars was again hungry; certainly the air of that dungeon was very provocative of appetite. The prison…
W e awake from every sleep except the one dreaded by Danglars. He awoke. To a Parisian accustomed to silken curtains, w…
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