num_pages: 1462
description: Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s  The Great American ReadA 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.”
language: English
title: The Count of Monte Cristo
titlecomplete: The Count of Monte Cristo (Modern Library)
characters: Benedetto, Hermine Danglars, Fernand Mondego, Eugénie Danglars, Valentine de Villefort, Mercédès Mondego, Gérard de Villefort, Abbé Faria, Franz d'Épinay, Vassiliki Kontaxi, Pierre Morrel, Haydée, Noirtier de Villefort, Edmond Dantès, Gaspar Kadrus, Albert de Morcerf, Luigi Vampa, Giovanni Bertuccio, Ali Pasha of Ioannina, Héloïse de Villefort, Baron Danglars, Maximilien Morrel
genres: Historical, Literature, Classics, Adventure, Novels, Classic Literature, France, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Romance
ratings_count: 889499
places: France, Paris, Marseille
publisher: The Modern Library