Edmond Dantès, a young sailor about to be married and made captain, is betrayed by jealous rivals and a self-serving prosecutor and locked away without trial…
About the recording
Author
Alexandre Dumas
Read by
Ana Simão, Robin Cotter, Kristin LeMoine and 60 other readers
Edmond Dantès, a young sailor about to be married and made captain, is betrayed by jealous rivals and a self-serving prosecutor and locked away without trial in the Château d'If. After fourteen years, taught by the old abbé in the next cell, who also tells him of a hidden treasure, he escapes in a dead man's sack, finds the treasure on the island of Monte Cristo and returns to Paris as the mysterious Count, to reward those who were loyal and to ruin, one by one, the men who destroyed him. Revenge, the book slowly shows, is harder to control than he imagined.
Context and significance
Alexandre Dumas published the novel in instalments between 1844 and 1846, and it has been one of the most popular novels in the world ever since. This is the classic anonymous English translation, complete, shared among more than sixty LibriVox volunteers: some fifty hours of listening.
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