Alexandre Dumas
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Abridged by Lowell Blair.
Set against the turbulent years of the Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas's thrilling adventure story is one of the most widel
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y read romantic novels of all time. In it the dashing young hero, Edmond Dantès, is betrayed by his enemies and thrown into a secret dungeon in the Chateau d'If -- doomed to spend his life in a dank prison cell. The story of his long, intolerable years in captivity, his miraculous escape, and his carefully wrought revenge creates a dramatic tale of mystery and intrigue and paints a vision of France -- a dazzling, dueling, exuberant France -- that has become immortal.
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