The Count of Monte Cristo, Volume II (of V) de Alexandre Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo, Volume II (of V)

Alexandre Dumas

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en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 ian 2009

THE RETURN OF DANTES

His world had been turned upside down.
In 1815 Edmond Dantes, a young sailor, returned to Marseilles with great expectations.
But Dantes' shipmate Danglars wanted his new captaincy. And a man named Fernand wanted the gorgeous Mercedes, his fiancé.
After Fernand and Danglars wrote a note accusing Edmond of conspiring in a plot to bring the exiled Napoleon Bonaparte back from Elbe. Edmond was arrested on his wedding day and taken before a political turncoat named Villefort.
To cover up his own reputation, Villefort had the accused Edmond Dantes imprisoned in the dungeons of Château D'If.
But in prison Dantes met and befriended an Italian abbé who educated him and then, in death, helped him escape with a fabulous secret of a treasure on the island of Monte Cristo.
Now, rich and posing as the Count of Monte Cristo, Dantes returns to France --
To seek revenge!

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Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870) was a French writer. His works have been translated into nearly 100 languages and he is one of the most widely read French authors. Many of his historical novels of high adventure were originally published as serials, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later. His novels have been adapted since the early twentieth century for nearly 200 films. Dumas' last novel, The Knight of Sainte-Hermine, unfinished at his death, was completed by a scholar and published in 2005, becoming a bestseller. It was published in English in 2008 as The Last Cavalier. Prolific in several genres, Dumas began his career by writing plays, which were successfully produced from the first. He also wrote numerous magazine articles and travel books; his published works totaled 100,000 pages.