The Count of Monte Cristo

Manga Classics proudly introduces our faithful adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo. A great deal of research was required by our adaptation team to ensure a faithful reading of the story. This effort also included visiting each site used by Dumas in his tale. All Manga Classic titles are produced with lesson plans, teaching guides and leveling for use in the classroom. With each and every Manga Classic, it is our passion and hope that we help the reader connect with the story in a meaningful way. We also feel this is an exciting way to introduce these classic stories to a new reader who may then go back to read the original texts. We hope you enjoy our work.

Alexandre Dumas delivers a brilliant story of justice, revenge and adventure in his classic tale of The Count of Monte Cristo.The victim of a miscarriage of justice, the Count of Monte Cristo is firedby a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of providence. In hiscampaign of vengeance, he becomes an anonymous agent of fate. The sensationalnarrative of intrigue, betrayal, escape, and triumphant revenge moves at acracking pace. Alexandre Dumas' novel presents a powerful conflict between goodand evil embodied in an epic saga of rich diversity that is complicated by thehero's ultimate discomfort with the hubristic implication of his ownactions.