Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas - Signet mm paperback, abridged)

Author: Alexandre Dumas

ISBN: 9780451529701

Binding: mass market paperback

Section: Fiction

In the post-Napoleonic era, Edmond Dantés, a young sailor from Marseilles, is poised to become captain of his own ship and to marry his beloved. But spiteful enemies provoke his arrest, condemning him to lifelong imprisonment. Then his sole companion in prison reveals his secret plan of escape and a letter with directions to hidden riches on the island of Monte Cristo — a treasure trove that will eventually fund Edmund's dream of creating a new identity for himself: the mysterious and powerful Count of Monte Cristo.