The Count of Monte Cristo - Wordsworth Editions
Author:
Alexandre Dumas
Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions
ISBN:
9781853267338
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Format:
Paperback
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0
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Publishing Date:
1997
Number of Pages:
928
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Language:
English
Condition:
New
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury. The story of Edmund Dantes, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, is told with consummate skill. The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of providence. In his campaign of vengeance, he becomes an anonymous agent of fate. The sensational narrative of intrigue, betrayal, escape, and triumphant revenge moves at a cracking pace. Dumas' novel presents a powerful conflict between good and evil embodied in an epic saga of rich diversity that is complicated by the hero's ultimate discomfort with the hubristic implication of his own actions.