The Count of Monte Cristo
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The Count of Monte-Cristo was inspired by an anecdote from the Parisian police archives a pearl of a story Dumas called it A rough shapeless pearl of no value waiting for its jeweller. Edmond Dants betrayal his incarceration in the fortress-prison of If his search for Abb Farias hidden treasure and his reappearance now fabulously rich as the brooding Byronic and vengeful Count of Monte-Cristo - these are the bare outlines of a book which Thackeray for one found impossible to put down. Dumas set his magnificent novel of Laction et lamour in nineteenth-century metropolitan Paris with interludes in Marseilles and Rome. In it he gave free rein to the sensational - hashish-smoking vampirism and sex - and to his interest in travel classical myth the orient human psychology and disguises. The Count of Monte-Cristo (1844-46) is one of the great popular novels of all time and a landmark in the development of modern popular fiction.
