On the day of his wedding,Edmond Dantes,master mariner,is arrested in Marseille on trumped-up charges and spirited away to the cellars of the Chateau d'If,an impregnable sea fortress in which he is imprisoned indefinitely. Escaping from the chateau by a series of daring manoeuvres,he unearths a great treasure on the island of Monte Cristo,buried there by a former fellow prisoner who bequeaths to him the secret of its whereabouts. Thus armed with unimaginable wealth and embittered by his long imprisonment,he resolves to devote his life to tracking down and punishing those responsible. This classic nineteenth-century translation has been revised and updated by Peter Washington,with an introduction by award-winning novelist Umberto Eco.
Publisher: EverymanISBN: 9781841593203Number of pages: 1240Weight: 1040 gDimensions: 208 x 138 x 56 mm
Alexandre Dumas
French author of historical novels and famed womaniser.
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A revered Italian author,academic,philosopher and critic,Umberto Eco was a true polymath with wide-ranging interests across fields of literature,semiotics,popular culture and gastronomy. A distinctive and eccentric figure who achieved cult status after the publication of his bestseller The Name of the Rose,his other works include Foucault's Pendulum,Baudolino,The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana,The Prague Cemetery and Numero Zero.
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