The story of Edmond Dantes, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, is told with consummate skill. The victim of a miscarriage of justice. Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of providence. In his campaign of vengeance, he becomes an anonymous agent of fate. The sensational narrative of intrigue, betrayal, escape, and triumphant revenge moves at a cracking pace. Dumas novel presents a powerful conflict between good and evil emboided in an epic saga of rich diversity that is complicated by the hero's ultimate discomfort with the hubristic implication of hiw own actions.
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