Conde de Montecristo, El

Edmond Dantès is a young sailor -- honorable and guileless -- who leads a tranquil existence. He intends to marry the beautiful Mercedes, but his life is ruined when Fernand -- desperate to win his fiancée's hand -- vilely betrays him. Sentenced to serve an undeserved term in the sinister prison of the Château d'If, Edmond endures a long, thirteen-year nightmare. Obsessed with his unexpected fate, he casts aside his convictions regarding good and evil and dedicates himself to plotting the perfect revenge. Possessing a moral depth as intense as it is revelatory, The Count of Monte Cristo remains an engaging and enthralling novel in its many dimensions. In this edition, José Ramón Monreal's translation ensures that Edmond Dantès remains vividly alive, bringing this literary colossus closer to the twenty-first-century reader.