Summary The scene now changes dramatically. We are in Rome, where two new characters appear: Franz d’Epinay (a young baron) and Albert de Morcerf (a good-looking viscount). The young men are fretting because they have come to Rome to find romance and laughter during the carnival season, but strangely, all […]
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Summary Stunned and almost suffocating, Dantes manages to rip open the shroud-sack with a knife, and then he cuts himself free from the cannon ball that is tied around his feet. But he is still not safe. The waves around him churn and rise like phantoms. Finally, however, Dantes is […]
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Summary In his study at the Tuileries in Paris, King Louis XVIII jokes about Bonaparte’s partisans causing “trouble” in the south of France — that is, he jokes about it until Villefort’s arrival is announced. Villefort brings news of “dire importance” about a traitorous conspiracy: Napoleon has manned three ships, […]
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Summary The time: February 1815. The place: Marseilles, France. The Pharaon, a three-masted sailing ship coming from Italy, is docking. Like all dockings, this one attracts a large crowd, but this particular ship draws a great crowd because it belongs to a wealthy man of Marseilles, Monsieur Morrel. Strangely, there […]
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The Count and His Friends Edmond Dantes (alias the Count of Monte Cristo; his other aliases are Sinbad the Sailor, Abbe Busoni, and Lord Wilmore) Dantes is the dashing and romantic hero of the novel; at the age of nineteen, he is falsely imprisoned for a crime which he did […]
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Edmond Dantes, a handsome, promising young sailor, skillfully docks the three-masted French ship, the Pharaon, in Marseilles after its captain died en route home. As a reward, Dantes is promised a captainship, but before he can claim his new post and be married to his fiancee, Mercedes’, a conspiracy of […]
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