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The Count of Monte Cristo (Modern Library Classics)

The Count of Monte Cristo (Modern Library Classics)

Current price: $16.00
Publication Date: June 11th, 2002
Publisher:
Modern Library
ISBN:
9780375760303
Pages:
1488
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Description

Introduction by Lorenzo Carcaterra • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

A popular bestseller since its publication in 1844, The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the great page-turning thrillers of all time. Set against the tumultuous years of the post-Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas’s grand historical romance recounts the swashbuckling adventures of Edmond Dantès, a dashing young sailor falsely accused of treason. The story of his long imprisonment, dramatic escape, and carefully wrought revenge offers up a vision of France that has become immortal. As Robert Louis Stevenson declared, “I do not believe there is another volume extant where you can breathe the same unmingled atmosphere of romance.”
 
INCLUDES A MODERN LIBRARY READING GROUP GUIDE

About the Author

Lorenzo Carcaterra is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sleepers, A Safe Place, Apaches, Gangster, Street Boys, Paradise City, Chasers, Midnight Angels, and The Wolf. He is a former writer/producer for Law & Order and has written for National Geographic Traveler, The New York Times Magazine, Details, and Maxim. He lives in New York City with Gus, his Olde English Bulldogge, and is at work on his next novel.

Praise for The Count of Monte Cristo (Modern Library Classics)

“A piece of perfect storytelling.”—Robert Louis Stevenson