{"product_id":"the-count-of-monte-cristo-9780142000731","title":"The Count of Monte Cristo","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Count of Monte Cristo\u003c\/strong\u003e by Dumas pere, Alexandre. Paperback edition. ISBN: 9780142000731.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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 Dantès betrayal, his incarceration in the fortress-prison of If, his search for Abbé 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45794405613621,"sku":"ByrdShop_0142000736","price":63.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780142000731_cfaf0bc8-d1d0-408e-940d-08491ef8045b.jpg?v=1792285209","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-count-of-monte-cristo-9780142000731","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}