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The Count of Monte Cristo, Romantic novel by French author Alexandre Dumas pere, published serially in 1844–46 and in book form in 1844–45. The work, which is set during the time of the Bourbon Restoration in France, tells the story of an unjustly incarcerated man who escapes to find revenge.
The Count of Monte-Cristo: Directed by Alexandre de La Patellière, Matthieu Delaporte. With Pierre Niney, Bastien Bouillon, Anaïs Demoustier, Anamaria Vartolomei. A new adaptation of the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas.
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Edmond Dantes is a nineteen year-old with a bright future. He is first mate on the ship Pharaon, which docks in Marseille in 1814. M. Morrel, who owns and operates the ship (and who is therefore Dantes’ boss and mentor) promotes Dantes to captain, which upsets the ship’s cargo manager, Danglars.
“The Count of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre Dumas is a tale of betrayal and revenge. Published as a serial novel between 1844 and 1866, it features Edmond Dantes, wrongly imprisoned and then escapes, who crafts and executes intricate revenge schemes against those who wronged him.
The Count of Monte Cristo is a classic example of the mid-nineteenth-century European serial adventure novel. These novels had large casts of characters, complex plots with numerous intertwined subplots, and central dramas involving love, revenge, and shifts in class or identity.
The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is a 2024 French period adventure-drama film based on the 1844 novel of the same name by Alexandre Dumas.The film is written and directed by Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière and stars Pierre Niney in the role of Edmond Dantès.
May 27, 2003 · Alexandre Dumas’s epic tale of suffering and retribution, inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If.
