The Count of Monte Cristo
                                 by Alexandre Dumas

      Set in the troubling times of France's Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas paints a dramatic and exciting story of betrayal and revenge. The protagonist, Edmond Dantes, is wrongfully "thrown into a secret dungeon in the Chateau d'If-doomed to spend his life in a dank prison cell." Many long years of imprisonment pass before he is able to execute a sly escape. Now free, Dantes sets himself on an determined path of rewarding those who were kind to him and delivering his own form of justice upon those who caused him so much misery. It is a classic tale of intrigue and human emotion. Bantam Dell, New York, NY, 2003. ISN0-553-21350-4Book Review: https://thebookstop.wordpress.com/2012/05/20/review-of-the-count-of-monte-cristo-by-alexandre-dumas/  Pages 531