The Count of Monte Cristo, retailer Alexandre Dumas, Barnes & Noble Classic Edition

New York: Barnes & Noble Inc., 2011. Barnes & Noble Classic Edition. In publisher's shrinkwrap. Features the full unabridged text of the novel. Unread book is tight and retailer square with solid hinges, sharp corners and clean unmarred boards. Faint rubbbing to side fore-edges gilt. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, stamp or markings. Bound in bonded leather with distinctive gilt edging, decorative endpapers, and a colorful ribbon bookmark. Publisher images included in photo display. Written in 1844, Alexandre Dumas' colorful tale of revenge, hope, and salvation is one of the best-loved classics of world literature. 1080 pages. 6" x 9" tall.

The victim of betrayal by friends and an insidious plot to hide another's perfidy, innocent young sailor Edmond Dantes is imprisoned for life at the island fortress of the Chateau d'If. After fourteen years, he makes a harrowing escape and works his way to the island of Monte Cristo, where he recovers abundant treasures whose location were made known to him by a fellow prisoner. Wealthy beyond imagination, Dantes sets about engineering the downfall and ruin of the men who stole his youth and robbed him of everything that he held dear in life.

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