Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of the Ch teau d'If.
Alexandre Dumas was born in 1802 at Villers-Cotterets in France. He
received very little education but when he entered the household of
the future king, Louis-Philippe, he began to read voraciously and
then to write. He is best remembered for his historical novels, The
Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. Dumas died in
1870.
Robin Buss was a writer and translator who worked for the
Independent on Sunday and as television critic for The Times
Educational Supplement. He published critical studies of works by
Vigny and Cocteau, and three books on European cinema, The French
Through Their Films (1988), Italian Films (1989) and French Film
Noir (1994). He also translated a number of volumes for Penguin
Classics. He died in 2006.
“A piece of perfect storytelling.”—Robert Louis Stevenson
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