Set against the flaming years of the Napoleonic era, here is the celebrated story of Edmond Dantes, a man sentenced to life imprisonment for a crime he did not commit, who escaped from the notorious and impregnable fortress, the Chateau D'if, to excact a terrible vengeance on his enemies.

The story of Dantes' long, intolerable years of captivity, his miraculous escape, his carefully wrought revenge has held millions of readers spellbound for more than a hundred years.