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

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

Alexandre Dumas

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 ian 2009

SLOW VENGEANCE!

Posing as the Count of Monte Cristo, the wealthy Edmund Dantes returned to France from his travels with a beautiful companion named Haidee.
Edmond Dantes was a young sailor who, in 1815, came home to Marseilles with great expectations.
But Dantes's enemies had him imprisoned in the dungeons of Château D'If.
In prison, Dantes met and befriended and 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.
Back in France, the Counts plans have been set into motion.
With information from the landlord Carderousse, Dantes plotted the ruin of the men who imprisoned him those many years.
Danglars, his former shipmate. Fernand who stole Mercedes from him. Villefort, who signed the order for his imprisonment.
Caderousse's own greed was turned against him.
Then, in Paris, Monte Cristo ingratiated himself with Danglars, now a banker.
Now the ruining begins!

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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.