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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.
I n one of the aristocratic mansions built by Puget in the Rue du Grand Cours opposite the Medusa fountain, a second marriage feast was being celebrated, almost at the same hour with the nuptial repas…
N o sooner had Villefort left the salon, than he assumed the grave air of a man who holds the balance of life and death in his hands. Now, in spite of the nobility of his countenance, the command of w…
T he commissary of police, as he traversed the antechamber, made a sign to two gendarmes, who placed themselves one on Dantès’ right and the other on his left. A door that communicated with the Palais…
V illefort had, as we have said, hastened back to Madame de Saint-Méran’s in the Place du Grand Cours, and on entering the house found that the guests whom he had left at table were taking coffee in t…
W e will leave Villefort on the road to Paris, travelling—thanks to trebled fees—with all speed, and passing through two or three apartments, enter at the Tuileries the little room with the arched win…
A t the sight of this agitation Louis XVIII. pushed from him violently the table at which he was sitting. “What ails you, baron?” he exclaimed. “You appear quite aghast. Has your uneasiness anything …
M . Noirtier—for it was, indeed, he who entered—looked after the servant until the door was closed, and then, fearing, no doubt, that he might be overheard in the antechamber, he opened the door again…
M . Noirtier was a true prophet, and things progressed rapidly, as he had predicted. Everyone knows the history of the famous return from Elba, a return which was unprecedented in the past, and will p…
A year after Louis XVIII.’s restoration, a visit was made by the inspector-general of prisons. Dantès in his cell heard the noise of preparation,—sounds that at the depth where he lay would have been…
D antès passed through all the stages of torture natural to prisoners in suspense. He was sustained at first by that pride of conscious innocence which is the sequence to hope; then he began to doubt …
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…
A t the same time that the steamer disappeared behind Cape Morgiou, a man travelling post on the road from Florence to …
T he count departed with a sad heart from the house in which he had left Mercédès, probably never to behold her again. …
T he recent events formed the theme of conversation throughout all Paris. Emmanuel and his wife conversed with natural …
N otwithstanding the density of the crowd, M. de Villefort saw it open before him. There is something so awe-inspiring …
T he judges took their places in the midst of the most profound silence; the jury took their seats; M. de Villefort, th…
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