The Count of Monte Cristo

Designed to appeal to the book lover,the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real clothprinted on high quality paperand featuring ribbon markers and gilt edgesMacmillan Collector’s Library are books to love and treasure. The Count of Monte Cristo is the ultimate novel of retribution. Based on a true storyit recounts the story of Edouard Danteshis betrayal and imprisonment in the sinister Chateau d’If. Years laterParis is intrigued by the mysterious Count of Monte Cristowho bursts onto the Paris social scene with his millions. He encounters the three principal betrayers of Dantes who have prospered in the post-Napoleonic boom andone by onetheir lives fall apart. The book was a hugepopular success when it was first serialized in 1844and remains the greatest tale of revenge. Abridgedwith an afterword by Marcus Clapham.