The Count of Monte Cristo (Book II)

In 1844, Dumas published what is — alongside The Three Musketeers — surely his best-loved work, The Count of Monte Cristo. Known as Le Comte de Monte-Cristo in the original French, the book has captured the imaginations of generations of readers, thanks to its noble themes of morality, vengeance, and justice/injustice. The story of a man falsely imprisoned, and who then gets the chance to overturn the rough hand of fortune that life has dealt him, can't fail to ignite the flames of passion and intrigue.

The original form of the book was a serial, published in 18 parts over two years. Here, the work is collected together in its entirety, ready for a new generation of readers to fall in love with.

19th century France has provided us with some of history's greatest literary talents and a slew of spell-binding works. Gustav Flaubert, Honore de Balzac, Victor Hugo, and Guy de Maupassant all take their rightful places in the canon of world literature. However, there is a glaring omission here — their contemporary, Alexandre Dumas.