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The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo is an adventure novel by French author Alexandre Dumas completed in 1844. It is one of the author's more popular works, along with The Three Musketeers. Like many of his novels, it was expanded from plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter Auguste Maquet. Another important work by Dumas, written before his work with Maquet, was the short novel Georges; this novel is of particular interest to scholars because Dumas reused many of the ideas and plot devices later in The Count of Monte Cristo.The story takes place in France, Italy, and islands in the Mediterranean during the historical events of 1815–1839: the era of the Bourbon Restoration through the reign of Louis-Philippe of France. It begins just before the Hundred Days period . The historical setting is a fundamental element of the book, an adventure story primarily concerned with themes of hope, justice, vengeance, mercy, and forgiveness. It centres on a man who is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes from jail, acquires a fortune, and sets about exacting revenge on those responsible for his imprisonment. His plans have devastating consequences for both the innocent and the guilty.
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“If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.”
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Chapter 4 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo/Chapter_4
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“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
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“Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.”
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“How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.”
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“It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.”
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Chapter 11 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo/Chapter_11.
The Count of Monte Cristo (1845–1846)
Chapter 17 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo/Chapter_17
The Count of Monte Cristo (1845–1846)
