The Count of Monte Cristo: Complete and Unabridged (Illustrated with Included Audiobook) (English Edition)

The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas.

The book tells the story a man who is wrongfully imprisoned but escapes from jail and acquires a fortune. With his newfound wealth the escaped prisoner then sets about getting revenge on those responsible for his imprisonment.

"The Count of Monte Cristo has become a fixture of Western civilization's literature, as inescapable and immediately identifiable as Mickey Mouse, Noah's flood, and the story of Little Red Riding Hood." (Luc Sante, writer and critic at New York Review of Books).