The Count of Monte Cristo: Alexandre Dumas

The story of Edmond 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 hubristie implication of his own actions.
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