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Count of Monte Cristo

Book Review by: ric815    

Original Author: Alexander Dumas
Edmond Dantes, is a French sailor going back home to Marseille, he has everything he ever wanted.  About to marry
his beautiful fiancee Mercedes, and he was also promoted to ship''s captain.  But then everything changed when on his wedding day, he was arrested as a spy for Napoleon Bonaparte  and sentenced to life imprisonment. Sent to the island prison of the Chateau d''If, and unsure of what had happened to him,  Edward was saved from madness and suicide by a fellow inmate, who also helped him to figure out the people who were responsible for his predicament and to escape from the island prison.
Thus begun the revenge of Edmond, who arrives in France disguised as an enigmatic nobleman, on the people he thought were his friends and who had plotted on his imprisonment. And intertwined within, the love and hate, revenge and redemption of the Count of Monte Cristo.
Published: January 26, 2008
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