The Count of Monte Cristo (Deluxe Hardbound Edition)

Betrayal, a prison cell and a fortune that arrives too late to be innocent drive Dumas's long novel of revenge. Alexandre Dumas took the germ of the plot from a case compiled by the French police archivist Jacques Peuchet: a shoemaker named Pierre Picaud, falsely accused by jealous friends, confined for years, left a fortune by a fellow captive, and released to settle accounts one by one. The novel expands that skeleton into a study of patience, disguise and the cost of a life organised entirely around retribution. Worth knowing before reading: • A revenge plot rooted in a real case recorded by the archivist Jacques Peuchet • The wrongful confinement that separates a man from his intended marriage • An inherited fortune that makes years of patient retribution possible • A deluxe hardbound presentation of the complete novel For readers of nineteenth-century French fiction, admirers of long adventure narratives and collectors building a classics shelf. Available at Boipoka.