Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 528 p. Audience: Young adult. The Count

Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 528 p. Audience: Young adult. The Count of Monte-Cristo was inspired by an anecdote from the Parisian police archives, a pearl of a story, Dumas called it, 'A rough, shapeless pearl, of no value, waiting for its jeweller'. Edmond Dante's betrayal, his incarceration in the fortress-prison of If, his search for Abbe Faria's hidden treasure, and his reappearance, now fabulously rich, as the brooding, Byronic and vengeful Count of Monte-Cristo-these are the bare outlines of a book which Thackeray, for one, found impossible to put down. Dumas set his magnificent novel of L'action et l'amour in nineteenth-century metropolitan Paris with interludes in Marseilles and Rome. In it he gave free rein to the sensational-hashish-smoking, vampirism and sex-and to his interest in travel, classical myth, the orient, human psychology and disguises. The Count of Monte-Cristo (1844-46) is one of the great popular novels of all time, and a landmark in the development of modern popular fiction.

ABRIDGED. Trade paperback. Shelf/edge wear, curling/creasing to the spine,

ABRIDGED. Trade paperback. Shelf/edge wear, curling/creasing to the spine, creasing to the cover corners. Lightly tanned pages no apparent marks. Tracking available on most domestic orders.

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