the count of monte cristo penguin clothbound classics

Each beautifully bound hardcover Clothbound Classic features custom cover art inspired by each work, colored. The Count Of Monte Cristo (Penguin Clothbound Classics). The perfect gift for the literature lover, featuring a pair of our Count of Monte Cristo rocks glasses and a Penguin Clothbound Classic edition of The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. This classic nineteenth-century translation has been revised and updated by Peter Washington, with an introduction by award-winning novelist Umberto Eco. A beautiful new clothbound edition of Alexandre Dumas classic novel of wrongful imprisonment. Thus armed with unimaginable wealth and embittered by his long imprisonment, he resolves to devote his life to tracking down and punishing those responsible. Escaping from the chateau by a series of daring manoeuvres, he unearths a great treasure on the island of Monte Cristo, buried there by a former fellow prisoner who bequeaths to him the secret of its whereabouts. On the day of his wedding, Edmond Dantes, master mariner, is arrested in Marseille on trumped-up charges and spirited away to the cellars of the Chateau d'If, an impregnable sea fortress in which he is imprisoned indefinitely. The Count of Monte Cristo was written by the French writer Alexandre Dumas and was published in the years 1844-1846.

The count of monte cristo penguin clothbound classics