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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.
T he day following this scene, at the hour Debray usually chose to pay a visit to Madame Danglars on his way to his office, his coupé did not appear. At this time, that is, about half-past twelve, Ma…
L et us leave the banker driving his horses at their fullest speed, and follow Madame Danglars in her morning excursion. We have said that at half-past twelve o’clock Madame Danglars had ordered her h…
T he same day during the interview between Madame Danglars and the procureur, a travelling-carriage entered the Rue du Helder, passed through the gateway of No. 27, and stopped in the yard. In a momen…
M . de Villefort kept the promise he had made to Madame Danglars, to endeavor to find out how the Count of Monte Cristo had discovered the history of the house at Auteuil. He wrote the same day for th…
I t was in the warmest days of July, when in due course of time the Saturday arrived upon which the ball was to take place at M. de Morcerf’s. It was ten o’clock at night; the branches of the great tr…
M adame de Morcerf entered an archway of trees with her companion. It led through a grove of lindens to a conservatory. “It was too warm in the room, was it not, count?” she asked. “Yes, madame; and…
A gloomy scene had indeed just passed at the house of M. de Villefort. After the ladies had departed for the ball, whither all the entreaties of Madame de Villefort had failed in persuading him to ac…
I t was indeed Maximilian Morrel, who had passed a wretched existence since the previous day. With the instinct peculiar to lovers he had anticipated after the return of Madame de Saint-Méran and the …
T wo days after, a considerable crowd was assembled, towards ten o’clock in the morning, around the door of M. de Villefort’s house, and a long file of mourning-coaches and private carriages extended …
N oirtier was prepared to receive them, dressed in black, and installed in his armchair. When the three persons he expected had entered, he looked at the door, which his valet immediately closed. “Li…
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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