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Count of Monte Cristo

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I. Marseille. Arrival

On the twenty-seventh of February 1815, the sentinel of Notre-Dame de la Garde signaled the approach of the three-masted ship Pharaoh, coming from Smyrna, Trieste and Naples.

As always, the port pilot immediately left the harbor, passed the Chateau d'If and landed with the ship between Cape Morgione and the island of Rion.

Immediately, as usual, the site of Fort St. John was filled with curious people, for in Marseilles the arrival of a ship is always a big event, especially if this ship, like the Pharaoh, was built, equipped, loaded in the shipyards of ancient Phocea and belongs to the local armator.

Meanwhile the ship was approaching; he safely passed the strait which a volcanic tremor had once formed between the islands of Calasareni and Jaros, rounded Pomeg and approached under three topsails, a jib and a counter-mizzen, but so slowly and mournfully that the curious, involuntarily sensing misfortune, asked themselves what could have happened to him happen. However, experts in the matter saw clearly that if anything happened, it was not with the ship itself, for it was sailing as befits a well-controlled ship: the anchor was ready to be released, the water stays were released, and next to the pilot, who was preparing to enter the “Pharaoh” through the narrow entrance in the Marseilles harbor, stood a young man, agile and vigilant, observing every movement of the ship and repeating every command of the pilot.

The unaccountable anxiety that hovered over the crowd gripped one of the spectators with particular force, so that he did not wait for the ship to enter the port; he rushed into the boat and ordered it to be rowed towards the Pharaoh, with whom he caught up opposite Reserve Bay.

Seeing this man, the young sailor walked away from the pilot and, taking off his hat, stood at the side.

He was a young man of about eighteen to twenty, tall, slender, with beautiful black eyes and pitch-black hair; his whole appearance breathed that calmness and determination that is characteristic of people who, from childhood, are accustomed to fighting danger.

- A! It's you, Dantes! - shouted the man in the boat. - What's happened? Why is everything so sad on your ship?

“It’s a great misfortune, Monsieur Morrel,” answered the young man, “a great misfortune, especially for me: at Civita Vecchia we lost our glorious captain Leclerc.”

- What about the cargo? – the armorer asked briskly.

- Arrived safe, Monsieur Morrel, and I think in this regard you will be pleased... But poor Captain Leclerc...

-What happened to him? – asked the armorer with a look of obvious relief. -What happened to our glorious captain?

- He died.

- Fell overboard?

“No, he died of a nervous fever, in terrible agony,” said Dantes. Then, turning to the crew, he shouted: “Hey!” Stay in your places! Anchor!

The crew obeyed. Immediately, eight or ten sailors, of whom it consisted, rushed, some to the sheets, some to the braces, some to the halyards, some to the jibs, some to the jibs.

The young sailor glanced at them briefly and, seeing that the command was being carried out, turned again to his interlocutor.

- How did this misfortune happen? – asked the armorer, resuming the interrupted conversation.

- Yes, in the most unexpected way. After a long conversation with the commandant of the port, Captain Leclerc left Naples in great excitement; a day later he developed a fever; three days later he was dead... We buried him properly, and now he rests, wrapped in canvas with a cannonball in his legs and a cannonball in his heads, off the island of Del Giglio. We brought his cross and sword to the widow. It was worth it,” added the young man with a sad smile, “it was worth it to fight the British for ten years in order to die, like everyone else, in bed!”

- What can you do, Edmond! - said the armorer, who apparently calmed down more and more. “We are all mortal, and the old must give way to the young, otherwise everything would stop.” And since you say that the cargo...

- Completely safe, Monsieur Morrel, I assure you. And I think that you will be cheap if you are content with a profit of twenty-five thousand francs.

And seeing that the “Pharaoh” had already passed the round tower, he shouted:

- To Mars-Gitov! Cleaver-niral! On the mizzen sheet! Make an anchor for recoil!

The order was carried out almost as quickly as on a warship.

- Give me the sheets! Sails on the gypsum!

At the last command, all the sails fell, and the ship continued to glide barely noticeably, moving only by inertia.

“Now would you like to get up, Monsieur Morrel,” said Dantes, seeing the impatience of the armature. “Here comes Monsieur Danglars, your accountant, leaving the cabin. He will give you all the information you want. And I need to anchor and take care of the signs of mourning.

There was no need for a second invitation. The reinforcer grabbed the rope thrown by Dantes, and with a dexterity that would have done credit to any sailor, climbed up the brackets driven into the convex side of the ship, and Dantes returned to his former place, yielding the conversation to the one whom he called Danglars, who, emerging from cabins, really went towards Morrel.

He was a man of about twenty-five, rather gloomy in appearance, servile with his superiors, intolerant with his subordinates. For this, even more than for the title of accountant, which was always hated by the sailors, the crew disliked him as much as they loved Dantes.

“So, Monsieur Morrel,” said Danglars, “do you already know about our misfortune?”

- Yes! Yes! Poor Captain Leclerc! He was a nice and honest man!

“And most importantly, an excellent sailor, who has grown old between sky and water, as a person should be who is entrusted with the interests of such a large company as Morrel and Son,” answered Danglars.

“It seems to me,” said the armorer, following with his eyes Dantes, who was choosing a place to anchor, “that you don’t have to be such an old sailor as you say in order to know your business.” Our friend Edmond is doing so well that, in my opinion, he doesn’t need anyone’s advice.

“Yes,” replied Danglars, casting a sidelong glance at Dantes, in which hatred flashed, “yes, youth and arrogance.” Before the captain had died, he took over the command without consulting anyone, and forced us to lose a day and a half off the island of Elba, instead of going straight to Marseilles.

“Having accepted the command,” said the armator, “he fulfilled his duty as a mate, but it was wrong to lose a day and a half off the island of Elba, unless the ship needed repairs.”

“The ship was safe and sound, Monsieur Morrel, and these days and a half were lost out of pure whim, for the pleasure of going ashore, that’s all.”

Literature, written in 1844-1845.

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the film by Claude from Analog the Count of Monte Cristo based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas the Father the film starred the role of Yes but Loupi Claudine Jean Martinelli and other cameramen Jacques Na Tom and Jean Iz Na composer early Klaira no news that's all you can tell me what you want from me hear you don’t keep your words I don’t keep your ship should have returned at the beginning of the month now it’s March 31st it’s not my fault who the wind has changed and I don’t throw words to the wind you’re unfair you lied to console me so that I’ll let the baby go again the baby is 22 years old I’m also upset you're upset, you're thinking about your oriental rugs, you're worried that their fish will eat them on board, my only son, yes, I understand, no, you can't understand, you have a daughter, she's not threatened by the fleet, don't worry, Mr. Dantes, pharaoh, good ship, pharaoh, good ship, for firewood, the children got carried away with the toy when they grew up and set off. a savage on the other side of the world, my Louise was always afraid that some woman would steal him from us and it had to happen for this fool to do this with his pharaoh, I don’t know what’s holding me back from that’s what I’ll do to the pharaoh, and you see the throne is strong, yeah it’ll hold up and not so amateurs, this also needs to be patched up, we are still returning, I am consoled by the thought that if I had not sailed away, Napoleon would have taken me to Russia, in salsa it is better to drown than to freeze, you think this is funny, the captain has grown up after the storm, I want to relax, then find another object for jokes at least in my presence, this one with your emperor, you don’t open the cake from the most humble one, the fleet is not the best activity, we can’t even play ball and you know, I come from the old port, I’m not at ease here, but what attracts you to sea travel? silence, good afternoon, Mercedes you don't say hello to me good afternoon Fernand I'm sorry I didn't see you sad look from the Pharaoh still no news he will return you will see believe me don't despair Mercedes I know one thing but he is a brave man a good sailor who the captain could not have had a better mate he will return I'm sure I'm very touched by the synthesis my best friend and his happiness is as important to me as yours you must be suffering a lot it's my fault I really wish you could forget me forget the happy moments of my life I want to live in the wonderful past my future will consist of these memories I'm not beautiful enough to face the loneliness Fernand why continue to see each other it would be better to leave than to waste years don't ask me to come when I couldn't win your love but I'm not moving loss of respect Mr. officer Mr. Fernand how glad I am to see you surprise, I’m angry with you, you rarely come to see us, my daughter says this every day, my mother really loves you, you’re the only one who can cheer her up, especially since she’s waiting for her sailor, mom, since he’s always the mayor, let me leave, tell Mr. Fernand, bye didn’t leave you know all the important people Napoleon’s affairs are bad please you are not going to find these yet revolution no something tell me I heard that Louis 18 wants to return it’s true I don’t know for sure but in any case he does not lack the courage to return after what was done to him brother, yes, Mr. Fernand, you will see Madame see you soon in the garden, now you will visit us more often, of course, until the next bumpkin, until the next one, I promise, down with the tyrant, gave the emperor, long live the king, any complex was upset about the leaf, father, if only our king had found his people again, but they forgot to add, accompanied by foreign soldiers, I assure you, father, the invaders always leave, Napoleon himself just proved it, you are hiding your confusion, don’t demand sympathy from me, man, victory has always been ruthless, a man who risks his life for the greatness of the country and for whom I did not have time to give my life, it’s time to come to my senses and no longer a colonel of the palace, Mr. Belfort, I am depriving you of a name that you did not value, I ask you, father, calm down, besides, the first are obliged to obey the soldier, of course, obedience is the main thing to whom the soldier is not a servant, you must set an example, but you have the soul of a loser, the whole country will not be a loser, there will be a reasonable one man to correct the madness of others in reality the losers are the dead more than a million people died for the emperor and why why should I tell you so that Monsieur de Villefort becomes the royal prosecutor you judge must remain impartial about justice there are no opinions and there is no homeland justice is a myth heroism is also but dangerous if you are not on the battlefield you are lost near the battlefield there is one advantage there you can meet real people goodbye my son Dantes wait we need to talk yes captain I just made a decision the news we received in the sweat of Naples made me do it I decided to join the emperor but captain morel is awaiting cargo, if for you the interests of the shipowner are higher than the interests of the country, then you will accept the powers that I will transfer to you as soon as we land on the Elbe, everyone determines their own

History of creation

The writer came up with the name of his hero during a trip to the Mediterranean Sea, when he saw the island of Montecristo and heard the legend about the countless treasures buried there. The author only slightly changed the name of the island. The novel takes place in 1815-29 and 1838.

The success of the novel “Monte Cristo” surpassed all the writer’s previous works. It was at that time one of the greatest successes of any novel in France. Performances based on the novel are staged in theaters. Earnings allow Alexandre Dumas to build a country villa in addition to his house. He calls the luxurious palace “Castle of Monte Cristo”, and he himself begins to lead a lavish life worthy of his hero.

Plot

Imprisonment in prison

The main character of the novel is the Marseille sailor Edmond Dantes from the ship Pharaoh. During one of his voyages, he stopped at the island of Elba, where he met Marshal Bertrand (later said to be Murat), who instructs him to deliver a letter to Paris. With this, Edmond fulfills the last will of the captain of the “Pharaoh” who died shortly before.

After another seizure, the abbot dies. The guards sew the dead man into a bag, planning to bury him in the evening. Dantes, who came to say goodbye to his deceased friend, is struck by an idea - he transfers the abbot’s body to his cell, and he himself takes his place (stripping, and then sewing up the bag using tools made by the abbot). He is thrown into the sea like a dead man. He barely gets out of the bag and swims to the neighboring island. In the morning he is picked up by local smugglers. Dantes made friends with his new comrades, and the captain praised him as a skilled sailor. Once free, Dantes learns that he had been in prison for 14 years.

Monte Cristo Island is uninhabited and smugglers use it as a transit point. Dantes, pretending to be sick, remains on the island where he finds the treasure.

Return

Dantes, having become rich, did not forget those who did good to him.

He told his fellow smugglers that he had received an inheritance and generously rewarded them all.

Edmond then begins his own investigation to find out what happened to his father, fiancee, friends and enemies after his arrest and disappearance. Under the guise of a priest fulfilling the last will of the “late” Dantes, who allegedly bequeathed the diamond to his friends - Caderousse, Fernand, Danglars and Mercedes - he visits Caderousse, who went bankrupt in his craft as a tailor and now keeps an inn in a bad place. Overwhelmed by greed, Caderousse forgets about caution and tells Edmond the whole truth about his arrest and everything that happened after that: about the despair of Mercedes and Dantes' father, who eventually died of hunger, the nobility of the shipowner Morrel, who tried to fight for Dantes's release and supported his father. In addition, Caderousse said that Mercedes became Fernand’s wife, and Dantes’s former owner, Mr. Morrel, is almost ruined, while Danglars and Fernand are now rich, moving in the highest Parisian society (Fernand became a general, Comte de Morcerf, peer of France, and Danglars a millionaire banker who received the title of baron) and, apparently, are happy. He answers the question about Villefort vaguely, since he knew him only from his participation in the Dantes case, and could only report that Villefort was no longer in Marseille.

Edmond Dantes returns to Marseille, where he learns that his former master and friend, the armourer Morrel, is almost ruined. All his hopes are for the return with the cargo of the Pharaoh, the very ship on which Dantes once sailed. But news comes of the death of the Pharaoh in a storm (although the crew and captain miraculously escaped). Dantes finds out about this when, under the guise of an agent of the banking house-creditor Morrel, he comes to the armator himself. On behalf of his banking house, Dantes gives Morrel a final reprieve. But the reprieve is coming to an end, and Morrel cannot pay. To avoid shame, he wants to commit suicide, but at the last moment they bring him canceled bills, and a new “Pharaoh” enters the port. Morrel and his family are saved. Dantes watches them from afar. He has closed his gratitude accounts and is now ready for revenge on his enemies.

Characters of 1829

Now he gradually begins to carry out his plan of revenge. Believing that the death of his enemies would be insufficient payment for his sufferings, and also considering himself as an instrument of divine justice, an instrument of Providence, he gradually strikes blows at his victims; As a result, the disgraced Fernand, whose wife and son left him, commits suicide, Caderousse dies due to his own greed, Villefort loses his entire family and goes crazy, and Danglars goes bankrupt and is forced to flee France. In Italy, he is captured by robbers subordinate to Monte Cristo; they rob him of the last remnants of his once enormous fortune. So, Caderousse and Fernand are dead, Villefort is mad, and the life of the beggar Danglars is in the balance.

But the count was already tired of revenge - in the last days he realized that by taking revenge on those whom he considered criminals, he had caused irreparable harm to many innocent people, and the consciousness of this lay a heavy burden on his conscience. Therefore, he sets Danglars free and even allows him to keep fifty thousand francs.

At the end of the novel, the count sails away with Hyde on a ship, leaving the island of Monte Cristo with its underground palaces and enormous wealth as a gift to Morrel’s son Maximilian and his lover, Valentina de Villefort, the prosecutor’s daughter.

Characters of 1838

It has now been proven that the novel “The Last Payment” is a very late hoax created in the USSR. Witty in concept and spectacular plot development, it cannot possibly belong to the pen of Alexandre Dumas the Father, since it is written in a completely different stylistic manner and is replete with obvious anachronisms. Evidence is given in the article “Merry Ghosts of Literature” by Alexander Obrizan and Andrei Krotkov. Most likely, the motive for this literary hoax is based on the coincidence of two events: Pushkin's murderer Georges-Charles Dantes and the writer Alexandre Dumas fils died almost simultaneously - in November 1895. There is no connection between these events, but they could well have served as an impetus for the plan for an imaginary continuation of The Count of Monte Cristo.

Novel "Lord of the World"

A novel by the German writer Adolf Mützelburg. In this book, the reader will again meet the heroes of the novel “The Count of Monte Cristo” and learn about their further fate, meet new characters, and visit with them in the vastness of the American West, in Africa and various European countries.

Film “The Son of Monte Cristo” (1940, USA)

In 1865, General Gurko Leinen, with the help of the troops of Napoleon III and the support of the Russian government, wants to establish a totalitarian regime on the territory under his jurisdiction (the fictional state of the Grand Duchy of Lichtenberg, the “pearl of the Balkans,” stylized as Habsburg Hungary, more or less known to the American viewer, although by religion, judging by apparently, is Orthodoxy - the general and duchess are crowned by an Orthodox bishop), marry Duchess Zona and thus become king. To obtain a loan, he turns to a banker - the son of the Count of Monte Cristo, Edmond. However, the younger Monte Cristo refused to increase his wealth in this way. The banker, on the contrary, raises the people to fight the dictator.

The Count of Monte Cristo - this name has become a household name for avengers. Yes, the work is great and brilliant. But what always alarmed me was what would have happened if Edmond had not met Abbot Farria in the dungeons and would not have received knowledge and the key to wealth from him. How would his fate have turned out, like the fate of many other innocently convicted people? After all, the whole plot of revenge, sophisticated revenge - not to kill, but to humiliate and trample, rests on wealth. What if he didn't exist? How would he behave?

He would not have turned out to be an ordinary avenger with a pistol and a dagger, or he would have realized that he had to move on with his life and would have forgotten the years of imprisonment like a bad dream. After all, only treasures gave him the opportunity to organize his revenge. They may object to me - he would have achieved the same thing with his intelligence and knowledge, oh, I doubt it. After all, only the abbot explained to him the background of the betrayal and put into him the rudiments of knowledge, and gave him the opportunity to accomplish his plan.

Rating: 10

Only once did Dumas really take on his contemporaries, and the picture turned out to be extremely gloomy. Over the course of two voluminous volumes, one bad person takes long, tedious and mean revenge on other bad people. There are good people, but they are extremely unconvincing. Fight for justice? Nothing like that. There is a sea of ​​injustice all around, but the count ignores it and, on occasion, multiplies it. Only the desire to take revenge on one’s personal enemies is the smallest of all desires available to a person. Other people's millions and their entire lives were wasted on this. The last drunkard will not waste his life so mediocrely.

Dantes himself can still be understood. It's harder to understand his fans. I am not personally familiar with them, but judging by the literature, there are many of them. In all countries, at all times, in all levels of society. Is it really so attractive - to get easy money, with it crazy omnipotence, and spend both on petty dirty tricks?

Rating: 7

It’s surprising, because I remember many pages of the book and the dialogues of the main characters almost by heart. But, all the same, sometimes you want to open a book and once again plunge into the world created by a brilliant author.

Probably, as a teenager, I saw only one side of the book, revenge. I really wanted justice, for all the scoundrels to get what they deserved, for a happy ending to the story.

During subsequent readings of the novel, I began to pay attention to details, descriptions of the life and everyday life of the high society, bureaucrats, and ordinary people contemporary to the author.

And only later I began to think about the reasons for certain actions of people, good and not so good.

After all, humanity has hardly changed over the last, say, 5,000 years of history more or less accessible to us. The driving forces behind most of the author’s actions, as at all times, are jealousy and envy, the desire for power and wealth. Is it different now?

On the way to the goal, treachery and betrayal are allowed, even from close people. However, they only betray their own people. Well, “situations” happen. “..There are no bad people, there are bad circumstances..”

But, if some people violate the commandments of God and man, then others can punish them for this, or at least for the harm caused to themselves. I think the most important thing in the book is precisely this, and not the fact that by the will of fate, having endured enormous suffering and hardship, miraculously retaining his sanity, from a simple sailor Dantes becomes the powerful Count of Monte Cristo.

People in those days were much more religious than they are now, and their worldview was clearly different from ours. And it seems to me that it would be wrong to judge that the newly-made count, possessing a colossal fortune, wasted himself in vain and petty on primitive revenge.

Moreover, the ending of the novel indicates this. After all, he is only 40, he is fabulously rich, and there is still a lot to come. And nothing oppresses him anymore, all his debts have been paid off.

And the fact that the GG put himself on the same level as providence and acts almost as the right hand of God - well, such is the author’s vision.

Well, and, of course, the main thing. No matter how good and important an idea is, the ability to present it is even more important. And this cannot be taken away from the author. Excellent easy language, dialogues, bright, charismatic, memorable characters. The plot is dynamic, fascinating, digressions are always in place and do not distract from the main thing.

But describing the plot or style of Dumas in his best novels is a thankless task, so I’ll just say - for everyone who hasn’t read it, it’s a must read!

Rating: 10

In Soviet times, it was almost impossible to get this book to read, until it was published in 1977 in a million copies and could be purchased in exchange for 40 kg. waste paper. One of our friends was lucky; they got a book, and I took it from them to read, and I’m still grateful to them for that. It's been more than thirty years since I read The Count of Monte Cristo, and all these years it has been one of my favorite books. I still remember almost all the characters, the entire plot and even small details. The novel well shows the greed, indifference, envy of some and the kindness, decency and nobility of others. I was 14 years old when I read it and it became a path to life for me.

I bow to the great Dumas, but we must not forget Auguste Macquet, it was with him that the best novels of Alexandre Dumas were written.

Rating: 10

Let me write briefly: it is wrong to perceive Monte Cristo’s actions as revenge. Dear readers, understand: for revenge it is enough to hire a dozen brothers and shoot all your offenders from around the corner. The novel is much deeper than the banal “I will take revenge on everyone.” The Count provides everyone with the opportunity to save themselves, change their karma, not commit a fatal act, and only the choice of the characters themselves (due to their criminal nature, hidden from the public) pushes them into the abyss prepared by Monte Cristo.

Please pay attention to this.

This is most clearly seen in the example of Caderousse (an old inn on a forgotten road, a diamond ring that unexpectedly fell as a gift).

Rating: 10

“The Count of Monte Cristo” is one of those books that people read in adolescence. I don’t know how it is now, but when I was fourteen, I read it avidly, empathized and terribly regretted that I couldn’t get into the pages of the book myself: help, protect, correct all the injustice that literally paved the path of the heroes. Years later, when I started rereading it, it was as if I had returned to childhood, to the same emotions with which I turned the pages.

And how good it is that Edmond was able to outgrow himself, his pain and his love. Stop at the very point after which his revenge ceased to be a kind of “sacred sacrament.” Having taken this step, he would never have been able to recover. It is glad that he realized this and did not complete his plan, although Danglars deserved a terrible fate much more than all the other victims of revenge. How happy I was when the count’s last consolation was Gaide, a girl who had seen so little good in life, but in whose heart there was so much love. If Edmond and Mercedes were reunited, nothing good would come of it; they would drown each other in bitter memories and regrets. And so, he was able to find peace and put aside the past.

It’s just a pity that he dragged Mercedes and Albert along with him. If a lucky star can still light up in the young man’s fate, then Mercedes will have to spend the rest of her life in regrets and torment, no matter how the Count tries to calm her down and ease her fate.

Dumas treats his heroes cruelly, guided by the same postulate of comparison as the count. And he, and Haide, and Morrel and Valentina suffered enough to receive happiness and love as a reward. But Mercedes, according to Dumas, has not experienced enough despair, and he plunges her even deeper, forcing her to suffer while waiting for news about her son.

Even now I like to re-read certain moments just according to the mood: to watch how Dantes falls and rises again, how he grows out of his delusions about the divinity of revenge; how quiet and modest Valentina fights to the best of her ability for what she wants. There will definitely be some moment that can excite you and make you think.

Rating: 10

The novel, of course, is much deeper than just a story of revenge, even served cold. Through this story, the author (let it be Dumaquet) shows us such a phenomenon as a complete change in personality. At the last meeting with the main character, Mercedes places the accents completely correctly - Edmond Dantes died in the Chateau d'If, and a different person came out of there. Ready to take on the burden of a superman.

The final point of no return appears to have been passed on the island with the discovery of the treasure. Without wealth, the old Dantes (albeit changed, thanks to the knowledge received from Faria) could still be revived to life. Although, maybe not - remember how on the island freedom without wealth was not enough for him. With its discovery, he finally disappeared into the brilliance of the power of Monte Cristo and his images. Let's not forget that he de facto began to live a triple life - count, abbot and lord.

Monte Cristo's revenge is not just a desire to punish the villains, it is something like a game of a creator with his creatures. Unlike his much more straightforward and down-to-earth historical “prototype” Pico, he does not make a single mistake, not for a second does he allow his opponents to come forward or even understand what is really happening. The only one who understood everything was Mercedes, who still loved the old Edmond. She can no longer bring him back to life, although she made Monte Cristo doubt the fidelity of his path. But Mercedes sees the hand of God in him and does not think about resisting the one whom she recognized as a being higher than herself. That is why there could be no talk of any reunion; the French film with Marais contains a grave mistake here. The Count of Monte Cristo is a stranger to her, he is Edmond's executor (for whom he presented himself to Caderousse in the guise of an abbot). And why does the superman himself need a wife from the past if he has a slave who admires him?...

Well, a few more unhelpful notes.

1. It seems that the author somehow missed the most interesting thing - the completion of Dantes' transformation into Monte Cristo, when he had to settle down with his wealth. It really wasn’t that simple, just once and the world is at your feet. Usually adventurers had trouble getting money. Here, on the contrary, it was necessary to arrange money, but it is unlikely that this process was less interesting and important for the development of a hero in a new capacity.

2. There are quite a lot of references to Russia scattered throughout the book, often made as if by chance. Either the count is looking for the route from St. Petersburg to China on the map, then Potemkin is remembered, then Russian princes pass in the background in both Italian branches, then a sterlet from the Volga is at dinner. If this is not greetings from translators, then it is an excellent evidence base for adherents of the Pushkin-Dumas theory;)

3. Eugenie Danglars evokes the greatest sympathy. At first she seems like a completely primitive daughter of a rich man, but then she reveals a completely different side. It’s as if she’s not from this time; she absolutely doesn’t want to live the largely sanctimonious life of Parisian society, being listed as married to someone. She strives to do what she wants, live an independent lifestyle and make a living through her art. As a result, she runs away with a friend (there are even some hints about the nature of their relationship that they are not only friendly) and completely breaks with her past life. The action is completely in the spirit of our superman, who approves of this idea and even helps the heroines.

Rating: 9

One of the most impressive stories about love, betrayal and giving everyone what they deserve.

The young man Dantes brings a letter from the island on which the dictator is imprisoned and becomes a victim at the same time of several envious people, who all individually benefit from the political slander against the young man. The young man is in love with the beautiful Mercedes and on the wedding day, the young man is arrested. The royal prosecutor, de Villefort, saw ordinary human envy in the case and was about to let the young man go, when suddenly the young man said the name of the addressee of the letter - Father de Villefort. In desperation, Villefort imprisons the young man in an impenetrable prison. As fate would have it, Abbe Faria sneaks into Dantes' cell through a tunnel. A man of remarkable intelligence and education, who becomes a second father and mentor for Dantes.

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Whose death becomes a chance to escape

From an impressionable young man, Dantes turns through many years of expectations and mental anguish into the cold Count of Monte Cristo, giving slanderers what they deserve.

Rating: 10

There are two main characters in the novel. One is in sight all the time. The second one is not. One is great in his vengeance - the second is great in himself. One is fictional, the other is real. These are Edmond Dantes (Count of Monte Cristo) and Napoleon Bonaparte. And not only because the emperor played a fatal role in the fate of Dantes (although it wouldn’t hurt for the sailor to use his brain sometimes - he stopped by to see the disgraced commander and even took some letter!). Everything around the action of the novel is imbued with the Great.

It was He who united Italy, in which Dantes so famously lit up in the guise of Sinbad, Abbot Busoni and, in fact, the Count. It was He who invented and introduced newspapers in France, the editor of one of which was Beauchamp. And in general, all of France in the form in which Monte Cristo found it was the work of Napoleon. Banks, telegraph, opera - without the General all this would not have happened.

And most importantly: Napoleon was a poor Corsican who became Emperor solely thanks to his intelligence, hard work, courage, and endurance. The Borgia treasure chest did not fall on him - he created these treasures himself. Moreover, it became a treasure in itself. Remember, he was exiled to Elba (let’s compare Dantes’ “imprisonment” in the Chateau d’If). And then he landed on the coast of France. Alone with a small handful of loyal companions. In a simple soldier's overcoat - and penniless. One - against the entire army of France and Europe. And he went on foot to Paris. And he entered the capital as Emperor.

Napoleon was not a vindictive man. Having become emperor, he did not execute any of his former detractors. The great man did not waste his time on such trifles as insults, revenge... Even being betrayed by some of his generals, even returning to power for 100 days, he forgave them... Although no, he didn’t even forgive (for this it was necessary to spend time on grievances).

And here is Dantes. A man of not the greatest intelligence (otherwise he would not have brought the matter to his conclusion). Having accumulated resentment for 15 years. Received a crazy fortune for free. And who squandered it on revenge... Small, small... small...

Let's imagine. Now, if Monte Cristo hired a ship and an army with this money and went to the island of St. Helena to free the Emperor. Yes, I know that by this moment he had already died, but we are fantasizing. I would free him, bring him to Paris, restore the French Empire, unite Europe... Yes, all this could be done without Napoleon, with such and such money... But where is it going? There’s no time - Danglars needs to pile another pile under the door...

We must remember that Dumas, as a true republican, did not really like Napoleon. But at the same time, he sincerely admired him, and wrote about the Emperor honestly, without political dirt... This is what many of our writers, especially all sorts of “science fiction writers No. 1” (although No. 2 would not hurt), could learn from.

Monte Cristo and Napoleon are Destruction and Creation. Destruction requires an incalculable amount of resources. For Creation, only the Mind of the Creator is needed. ...Somehow I’m turning into “science fiction writer No. 2” due to the abundance of capital letters... I need to finish.

Rating: 9

I was very surprised that there were few reviews... For me, it’s an excellent work, easy and enjoyable to read. Often you get the feeling that this really happened, and not a fictitious story. The images of the characters are written so carefully that sometimes you think that they could just meet on the street! I also read “The Fencing Teacher” and “The Black Tulip” by Dumas, I didn’t like it, but I reread “The Count” many times!

Rating: 10

How I read this novel as a child! What a wonderful romantic hero Dantes appeared to me! What exciting adventures! Re-reading it again at the age of 25+, I suddenly looked at it with completely different eyes...

Let's ignore the obvious fact that Dantes is a complete Mary-Sue. In just ten years, he studied all the sciences, all languages, all types of art, mastered all types of weapons, had a brilliant understanding of human psychology, learned all the possible secrets of his enemies, and so on and so forth. Let's say this corresponds to the genre and time of writing. But Dantes is also a rare bastard! Which is understandable, given the circumstances of his life, but does not fit into the image of a romantic hero. He even tortures his favorite people (Morrel, Maximilian, Hayde) to the last, and then royally grants them happiness. And for this they praise him to the skies and jump around like enthusiastic dogs.

In general, you can’t read this at a cynical (sorry, adult) age. And in the young - I recommend, then this whole story appears as an extremely fair retribution for the evil caused. The adventure component is at its best, you can’t complain about it. Read it voraciously, can't put it down.

I re-read it the second time at the end of the dashing nineties, in the short period from default to the new leader. And I was literally amazed: the book “played” with a mass of new shades of perception. This is our typical oligarch, who “from rags to riches”, but a man with a head and considerable organizational skills! This is simply a charming depiction of the realities of strategic planning in the context of the need to develop both business and charitable foundations, these are battles in the selection and placement of personnel, corporate team building, sabotage activities aimed at weakening competitors, etc., etc. And, naturally, the dilemma of “revenge or forgiveness” is overgrown in the conditions of new Russian realities - in addition to the spiritual and religious surroundings - with a mass of other surrounding realities: from an adequate assessment of feasibility, taking into account the question “is there food for the horse,” and to the analysis of prognostic effects in related environments - political, international, etc. It sounds not very clear, but that’s not the point.

What I mean is that any book can be perceived detachedly, as abstract light entertainment for the mind (possibly the soul), or it can be perceived as a resonator that excites the imagination.

Any book is multi-layered. That visible, obvious layer is made up of words that the Author built on paper; it is not the last. He is the first. There is a lot more behind it

Rating: 9

The novel is good, excitingly written, and the writing style is delicious. The only thing I didn't like was the unfair revenge. Let me explain: everyone involved in Dantes’s misfortune certainly deserves punishment, and it is clear that justice will not be done through legal means, so he carries out sophisticated lynching. But of all the conspirators, Danglars was the most vile, he is the only one whom I cannot justify in any way, unlike the others, he deliberately ruins Dantes’ life out of passion and hatred, the most base vice, but he received what he deserved at the very end and least of all - just ruined and disgraced. Judging by the book, Danglars was such a rotten person that Dantes’ revenge seems to me like water off a duck’s back - he will recover from the shock, give up and find an opportunity to make his money somewhere again. I have no complaints about revenge against Fernand Mondego, everything is fair, and the reason that pushed him to meanness is more sublime than Danglars - love for Mercedes. I agree with revenge on Caderousse, he punished himself because of greed, although when the fatal letter was written, he was against it, but being cowardly, he could not help Dantes. But with the prosecutor de Villefort, I think it was too much; too many innocent people, his relatives, suffered. The omnipresent and omniscient Dantes certainly could have taken revenge differently, but he didn’t and, in my opinion, it turned out too cruel. Of course, de Villefort, when putting Dantes in prison, was afraid for his own skin, but the prosecutor’s justification can be called love for his father and fear for him and his future. He was caught by surprise and was forced to act basely. Dantes’ coldness towards Mercedes is also striking, it is clear that he has resentment and disappointment, but Mercedes is not to blame for anything in front of him and he knows it. She thought that he died and did not know about Fernand’s involvement, she simply continued to live and this is reasonable. The impression was that while Dantes was taking revenge on his offenders from the less guilty to the main instigator Danglars, he lost his ardor, Cadrus, Fernand and the prosecutor got the full end, and compared to them Danglars got off too easily. Not fair, right?

An amazing book that touched me to the core. Dumas is great!

The Count of Monte Cristo is right up there with my favorite characters. He's truly great. To experience such suffering, such hell and return to take revenge on everyone, and how to take revenge! I have not forgotten anyone, truly the punishment of heaven has befallen everyone.

If you want to take revenge on anyone, then only this way.

I don't feel sorry for Mercedes one bit. I expected them to get together in the end, but thank the Gods, Dumas is above that.

The novel is easy to read, and you don’t want to part with the book, even though it is large in volume.

Rating: 10

On February 27, 1815, the three-masted ship “Pharaoh” returned to Marseille from another voyage. Captain Leclerc was not destined to set foot on his native soil: he died of fever on the high seas. The young sailor Edmond Dantes took command, fulfilling the captain’s other last wish: the “pharaoh” enters the island of Elba, where Dantes passes the package received from the hands of Leclerc to Marshal Bertrand and meets with the disgraced emperor himself. Dantes is given a letter to be delivered to Paris to Mr. Noirtier, one of the conspirators preparing Napoleon's return to the throne.

The owner of the Pharaoh, Morrel, invites Dantes to officially take over as captain of the ship. The accountant of the Danglars shipping company, obsessed with envy, decides to remove Dantes. Together with a retired soldier and now a simple fisherman Fernand Mondego, who competes with Dantes for the right to marry the beautiful Mercedes, and the tailor Caderousse, who robbed Edmond's father during the voyage, Danglars composes an anonymous letter to the assistant prosecutor of Marcel de Villefort. The meaning of the denunciation: Dantes is a secret agent of the Bonapartists. During the interrogation, Dantes, without concealment, everything as it was, tells Villefort about his visit to Elba. There is no corpus delicti; Villefort is ready to release the prisoner, but after reading Marshal Bertrand’s letter, he realizes: his happiness and his very life depend on this game of chance. After all, the addressee, Mr. Noirtier, a dangerous conspirator, is his father! It’s not enough to burn the damned letter, you also have to get rid of Dantes, who might unwittingly publicize this whole story - and as a result, de Villefort will lose not only his place, but also the hand of his bride, Renée de Saint-Meran (she is the daughter of an old royalist; the views of Mr. Noirtier, his relationship with the groom is a secret for them). Dantes is sentenced to life imprisonment in the Chateau d'If, a political prison in the middle of the sea, not far from Marseille...

Five years pass. Dantes is close to despair, he decides to die by starvation. Suddenly, one evening, a dull grinding sound comes to his ears behind the wall. He is not alone here, someone is clearly digging a hole in the direction of his dungeon. Edmond begins to dig a counter tunnel. Many days of work are rewarded with the joy of meeting a fellow sufferer. Abbot Faria - that is the name of the prisoner from the next cell - spent four years longer in the Château d'If than Dantes. By digging his hole, he hoped to break through to the outer wall of the prison, jump into the sea and swim to freedom. Alas, he made a mistake in his calculations! Edmond consoles the abbot: there are now two of them, which means they can continue what they started with double energy. The abbot's strength is running out, and soon, when salvation is just around the corner, he becomes seriously ill. Before his death, he initiates Dantes into the secret of the countless treasure hidden by Cardinal Spada on the island of Monte Cristo three hundred years ago.

Having transferred the body of the abbot to his cell, Dantes hides in the bag in which the dead man was placed. In the morning, without noticing the substitution, he is thrown into the sea - this is how the inhabitants of the Chateau d'If have been buried since the founding of the prison. Edmond is saved! He is picked up by smugglers. One of them, Jacopo, becomes Dantes's faithful comrade. After several months, Edmond finally reaches the island of Monte Cristo. The treasures of Abbot Faria are truly countless.

During the long years of Dantes' absence, significant changes also occurred in the fates of those who were to blame for his suffering; Fernand Mondego rose to the rank of general (now his name is Comte de Morcerf). Mercedes became his wife and bore him a son. Danglars is a rich banker. De Villefort - Crown Prosecutor. Caderousse said goodbye to the tailor's needle and scissors and runs a rural inn. ...God sends a strange guest to Caderousse. Abbot Busoni, who, according to him, confessed the dying Edmond Dantes, must fulfill the last will of the deceased. Dantes handed him a diamond, the money from the sale of which should be divided into five parts: equally - Mercedes, Danglars, Fernand, Caderousse and old Dantes. Caderousse is blinded by the shine of the diamond. He tells Abbot Busoni that Dantes was told by those whom he decided to benefit that Mercedes did not remain faithful to him. Yes, he, Caderousse, witnessed the writing of the denunciation - but what could he do! Danglars and Fernand would have killed him on the spot if he had mentioned the unseemly nature of their malice! As for the old man Dantes, he did not have enough strength to endure the blow of fate (in reality, Caderousse robbed him completely, and Edmond’s father died of hunger). He, he, Caderousse, is the only heir of poor Dantes! Abbot Busoni hands Caderousse a diamond and disappears the next morning...

At the same time, Lord Wilmore, an agent of the banking house Thomson and French, comes to the mayor of Marseille. He asks permission to review the investigation file of the Abbé Faria, who died in the If prison. He also has another assignment: to pay the debts of Mr. Morrel, the owner of a shipping company that is on the verge of collapse. Morrel's last hope was his flagship - the three-masted Pharaoh, but that - oh, evil fate! - dies in a shipwreck. Wilmore hands Morrell a promissory note for a six-figure sum and arranges a deferment for three months. But what can you do in three months? On the day when the reprieve expires, Morrel's daughter receives a letter signed “Sinbad the Sailor” indicating the address where she will find the wallet intended for her illustrious father. In the wallet is a check for the amount owed by Morrel and a diamond the size of a walnut: Mademoiselle Morrel's dowry. Everything that happened is like a fairy tale: but this is not enough. The “Pharaoh” enters the port of Marseilles safe and sound with all sails! The city is a witness to this miracle. Lord Wilmore, aka Abbot Busoni, aka Count of Monte Cristo, aka Edmond Dantes, looks at the sailboat rising from the abyss with a smile: “Be happy, noble man! You deserve this happiness!.. And now - goodbye, philanthropy! Let the god of vengeance make way for me so that I can punish the villains!..” With documents from his investigative file, kept together with the case of Abbot Faria, Edmond leaves Marseille...

The young Parisian aristocrat Baron Franz d'Epinay, going to the carnival in Rome, intended to visit the legendary Elbe. However, he changes his route: the ship sails past the island of Monte Cristo, where, according to rumors, a man who calls himself Sinbad the Sailor lives in a fairy-tale palace. The owner of the island receives Franz with such cordiality and luxury, which, it seems, none of the most powerful inhabitants of the earth have ever dreamed of. In Rome, Franz unexpectedly meets Sinbad, living in the same hotel with him under the name of Count of Monte Cristo. Franz's friend Viscount Albert de Morcerf is captured by robbers from the gang of chieftain Luigi Vampa, who terrorizes the people of Rome. The Count of Monte Cristo saves Albert: “Ataman, you have violated our agreement, my friend’s friend is my friend.” Vampa is distraught and sternly reprimands his thugs: “We all owe our lives to the Count! How could you act so rashly!” Albert invites the Count to visit Paris and be his guest of honor.

In the capital (where the count has not appeared before), Albert introduces him to his friends, including Morrel’s son Maximillian. This acquaintance deeply excited the count - young Morrel was no less excited when he learned that the count was using the services of the banking house of Thomson and French, which saved the lives of their entire family.

The Count of Monte Cristo acquires several apartments in Paris and a house in Auteuil, at 28 Rue Fontaine, which previously belonged to the Marquis de Saint-Meran. The count's manager, Bertuccio, perceives their move to this house as an evil fate. Many years ago, he witnessed how de Villefort buried a newborn baby in the garden of his father-in-law's house - an illegitimate son from an unknown lady. Bertuccio hastened to dig up a box - the baby was still alive. Bertuccio's daughter-in-law raised a boy, whom they named Benedetto. The son of eminent parents took the wrong path and ended up in jail. But this is only one of two terrible stories hidden by Bertuccio from the count. In June 1829, he stopped at the Caderousse tavern - the day after Abbot Busoni had visited there (Bertuccio does not realize that the abbot, who rescued him a long time ago from hard labor, and the count are the same person). Abbot Caderousse sold the diamond to a reliable jeweler for 45 thousand francs, and that same night he was stabbed to death. Now Caderousse is where Bertuccio also happened to be: at hard labor. The Count is sure that this is not the last drop in the cup that Caderousse must drink; as for Benedetto - if he is alive - then he will serve as a weapon of God's punishment...

The city is filled with rumors about the mysterious count and his wealth. The Count opens an “unlimited loan” at the Danglars bank. Danglars questions the Count's capabilities: there are limits to everything in the world. The Count ironizes: “For you, maybe, but not for me.” - “No one has counted my cash register yet!” - Danglars is wounded. “In this case, I am the first one who will have to do this,” the count promises him. Monte Cristo becomes close not only with Danglars, who did not recognize poor Edmond in him, but also with the de Villefort family. The Count wins the favor of Madame de Villefort: the Count's servant Ali saved her and Villefort's son from marriage from an accident (Villefort also has a daughter from his first marriage - Valentina, bound by bonds of love with Maximillian Morrel, but forced by her relatives to marry Franz d' Epinet). It’s as if fate itself is opening wide the doors to the Count of Monte Cristo in the houses of his sworn enemies, informing him of their other victims. The pupil of Dantes-Monte Cristo, the daughter of Pasha Yanina, the wondrous beauty Gayde (there are rumors in Paris that she is the count's mistress) recognizes in the Opera the man who gave the Turks for two thousand purses of gold the fortress that defended the city where her father ruled, and Gayde herself at the age of twelve sold as a girl into slavery to the Turkish Sultan. This man's name was Fernand Mondego; now he is known as Comte de Morcerf, Lieutenant General, member of the House of Peers. Hayde was ransomed by Monte Cristo from the Sultan, the count vowed to take revenge on the one for whom her father died and she herself languished in captivity. He is not at all surprised that this scoundrel is Fernand: he who betrays once risks remaining a traitor to the end.

Luxurious lunch at the Monte Cristo house. The first blows prepared by the Count for his offenders. Villefort turns pale when the count informs all the guests that in the garden he found the skeleton of a baby buried alive under the previous owner. Danglars learns that, while playing on the stock exchange, he suffered losses in the amount of over a million francs (the count published false information about the coup in Spain in the newspaper, and Danglars hastened to get rid of the shares of the Madrid Bank). Villefort informs Madame Danglars that the count is apparently privy to their secret: the unfortunate child was their illegitimate son. “You buried my child alive! God, this is your revenge! - exclaims Madame Danglars. “No, revenge still awaits us, and the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo will have to carry it out!” Villefort undertakes to find out the whole truth about the count at all costs; but Abbot Busoni and Lord Wilmore, who find themselves in Paris, give him very contradictory information. The Count not only remains unrecognized by playing these two roles, but also confuses his tracks. A young man named Andrea Cavalcanti appears in Paris (one count, who showered him with generosity, knows that this is the escaped convict Benedetto). Immediately, Caderousse emerges from the ground, assuring Benedetto that he is his son, and luring money out of the young scoundrel under the threat of ruining the brilliant career that has opened up before him. Cavalcanti-Benedetto de Villefort is forced to obey: he has his eye on Danglars' daughter, a girl with a rich dowry. Isn’t it better, he suggests to Caderousse, to give the count a good shake than to steal from him the money with which the madman Monte Cristo is lending him? Caderousse climbs into the count's house - and comes face to face with Abbe Busoni. An old convict betrays a young one; He writes, under the dictation of the abbot, a letter to Danglars, explaining who his son-in-law actually is. Leaving the house of the Count of Monte Cristo, Caderousse runs into Benedetto's knife. Before he gives up the ghost, the abbot makes sure that he, Monte Cristo and Edmond Dantes are one person...

A hail of misfortunes rains down on de Villefort's head: one after another, his father-in-law and mother-in-law suddenly die, then the old footman who drank lemonade from a decanter in his father Noirtier's room. The doctor comes to the conclusion: they were all poisoned. The criminal lives in this house. All of Villefort's servants immediately ask for their resignation. The case receives wide publicity. And here comes a new blow: Noirtier upsets the wedding of Valentina and Franz d’Epinay (he promised this to his beloved granddaughter). Noirtier's secretary contains a document stating that in February 1815 he killed General de Quesnel, Baron d'Epinay, who did not want to join the Bonapartist conspiracy, in a fair fight.

Now it’s Fernand’s turn. There is a scandal in the House of Peers: newspapers published a report about his low behavior during the Turkish siege of the fortress of Ioannina. Gaide comes to the hearings in the Chamber and presents documents to the peers that confirm: all this is true, General de Morcerf’s position in society was bought at the price of betrayal. Albert de Morcerf challenges the count to a duel, standing up for his father, but after the whole truth about Fernand Mondego is revealed to him, he asks Dantes for forgiveness. Madame de Morcerf, who still loves him, also begs Edmond for this. The Count accepts Albert's apology; on the same day he and his mother leave Paris. Morcerf repeats his son's challenge, but after the Count of Monte Cristo reveals his true name to him, the dishonored general shoots a bullet in the forehead.

Danglars is on the verge of ruin. He has to pay all the new bills with which the count's proxies come to him. His last hope is that he will be able to make a decent match for his daughter: young Cavalcanti is Monte Cristo’s confidante, and the giver’s hand is unlikely to become scarce. After the signing of the marriage contract, the words from Caderousse’s letter sound like a bolt from the blue: “Andrea Cavalcanti is an escaped convict!” Eugenie leaves Paris. Danglars no longer has either a daughter or money. He leaves a farewell note to his wife (“I’m letting you go the way I married you: with money, but without a good reputation”) and runs away. Andrea-Benedetto also runs, hoping to cross the border; but the gendarmes stop him. At the trial, he says: his father is prosecutor de Villefort!

The last, most terrible blow of fate in the heart of de Villefort: Valentina is poisoned. He has no more doubts: the murderer is his wife, who in such a terrible way obtained an inheritance for herself and her son (old Noirtier declared his granddaughter to be the only heir). De Villefort threatens his wife with the scaffold. In despair, Madame de Villefort takes poison and poisons the boy: “A good mother does not abandon the child for whose sake she became a criminal.” Villefort loses his mind; wandering through the garden of the Count of Monte Cristo's house, he digs graves in one place or another...

The act of retribution has been completed. Villefort is mad. Caderousse and Fernand are dead. Danglars was captured by robbers from Luigi Vampa's gang and spends his last money on bread and water: the thugs sell him a small piece of bread for a thousand francs, and in total he has less than fifty thousand in his pocket. The Count of Monte Cristo grants him life and freedom. Turning gray overnight, Danglars ekes out the existence of a beggar.

Evil is punished. But why did young Valentina de Villefort, who did not share the guilt of her father and stepmother, burn in his flame? Why should Maximillian Morrel, the son of the one who for many years in a row made attempts to rescue Dantes from prison, grieve for her all his life? Leaving Paris, the Count performs the miracle of Valentina's resurrection. Her death was staged by him in community with the old man Noirtier: the terrible poison was neutralized by a miraculous medicine - one of the generous gifts of Abbot Faria.

Returning to the island of Monte Cristo, having given happiness to Maximillian and Valentina, Edmond Dantes, the martyr of the Chateau d'If and the Parisian angel of vengeance, leaves a letter to the young people that sounds both like his confession and as a command to two pure hearts: “There is neither happiness nor happiness in the world.” misfortune. Everything is relative. Only one who has suffered immensely can experience bliss. One must feel the taste of death in order to taste life with pleasure. All wisdom is in two words: wait and hope!..”

Retold

The adventure novel “The Count of Monte Cristo” by Dumas was written in 1845. The impetus for its writing was the writer’s journey across the Mediterranean Sea, during which he visited the island of Montecristo, shrouded in legends.

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Main characters

Edmond Dantes (Count of Monte Cristo)- an honest sailor whose life was ruined by false accusations.

Other characters

Mercedes- Edmond Dantes's bride, a beautiful, decent girl.

Fernand (Comte de Morcerf)– Edmond’s main rival for Mercedes’ attention.

Albert de Morcerf- son of Fernand and Mercedes.

Danglars- an envious person who made a false denunciation against Dantes.

Villefort- a cold-blooded and cynical prosecutor who put Dantes behind bars.

Noirtier de Villefort- father of the prosecutor.

Valentina de Villefort– the prosecutor’s eldest daughter from her first marriage, a wealthy heiress.

Pierre Morrel- owner of the schooner "Fortune", merchant, benefactor of the young Dantes.

Julie and Maximilien Morrel- children of Pierre Morrel.

Abbot Faria- a learned monk, Edmond's only friend during his imprisonment.

Benedetto (Andrea Cavalcanti)- a criminal, the illegitimate son of Villefort and Madame Danglars.

Hayde- beautiful concubine of the Count of Monte Cristo.

Carduss- Edmond Dantes' neighbor who betrayed him.

Part one

Chapter 1. Marseille. Arrival

In 1815, the merchant ship Pharaoh called at the port of Marseille. During the voyage, the captain of the ship died, and the command was taken over by the intelligent young sailor Edmond Dantes - “a young man of about eighteen to twenty, tall, slender, with beautiful black eyes and jet-black hair.”

From the ship's accountant Danglars, the owner of the ship, Mr. Morrel, learned that, on the orders of Dantes, the Pharaoh made a stop at the island of Elba.

Chapter 2. Father and son

First of all, Dantes visited his old father. The young man handed over all his earned money so that the old man would not need anything. Then he asked for “permission to go to the Catalans,” where his bride, the beautiful Mercedes, was eagerly awaiting him.

Chapter 3. Catalans

The joyful meeting of Mercedes and Dantes was overshadowed by the appearance of Fernand, the girl’s cousin, who dreamed of marrying her. Edgar was his main rival, and the insidious Danglars, who was desperately jealous of the young man, decided to take advantage of this.

Dantes admitted to Danglars that before the engagement he must go to Paris to “fulfill the last order” of the captain.

Chapter 4. Conspiracy

Danglars managed to win over to his side Fernand, tormented by jealousy, and Cardousse, Dantes' neighbor. Under the leadership of Danglars, Fernand wrote a “little informer” against the young man, according to which he was a Bonapartist agent.

Chapter 5. Betrothal

The next day, a celebration was planned to mark the engagement of Mercedes and Edmond. Mr. Morrel reported that the young man had been appointed captain of the Pharaoh. In the midst of the fun, the “police commissioner” unexpectedly appeared, accompanied by soldiers, who arrested Dantes.

Chapter 6. Assistant Crown Prosecutor

On the same day, an engagement was also celebrated in the aristocratic circle - the promising prosecutor Gerard de Villefort became engaged to his beloved Renee. He had to leave his bride and guests to find out the reasons for Dantes' arrest.

Chapter 7. Interrogation

Villefort began interrogating the young man, and, accustomed to dealing with dangerous criminals, “in every word of Dantes he saw new proof of his innocence.” Edmond told how, on the orders of the dying captain, he arrived on the island of Elba, where he handed over some papers to the marshal. He received a reply letter, which he was supposed to deliver to Paris. Realizing that the dangerous letter was addressed to his father, a conspirator against royal power, Villefort immediately burned it, and ordered Dantes to be put behind bars.

Chapter 8. Chateau d'If

Under the cover of darkness, Dantes was taken to the Chateau d'If, located on a steep cliff in the middle of the sea. It was "a state prison reserved only for important political criminals."

Chapter 9. Evening of the engagement day

Villefort returned to his guests, but immediately began to get ready for the road. He planned to go immediately to Paris and personally perform "a service for the king that he will never forget."

Chapter 10. Little peace in the Tuileries

Villefort managed to get an audience with King Louis XVIII, to whom he informed about the organization of a terrible conspiracy against His Majesty.

Chapter 11. Corsican cannibal

At that moment, the Minister of Police appeared in the royal chambers and announced important news - Bonaparte had left the island of Elba and landed on the shores of France. Louis XVIII appreciated Villefort's devotion by awarding him an honorary order.

Chapter 12. Father and son

Villefort and his father, Monsieur Noirtier, were political opponents. At a personal meeting in Paris, Villefort warned his father about the danger that threatened him.

Chapter 13. One Hundred Days

Bonaparte managed to overthrow Louis XVIII and restore his imperial power. Monsieur Morrel decided to take advantage of this to intercede for Dantes. Villefort, in turn, did everything possible to prevent a new investigation, “which would have destroyed him irrevocably.” Old man Dantes, unable to bear the separation from his son, died.

Chapter 14. The insane prisoner and the frantic prisoner

Dantes served his time in a dungeon and was "close to madness." His neighbor was Abbot Faria, who, during his many years in prison, had lost his mind and told everyone about the countless treasures that he allegedly possessed.

Chapter 15. Number 34 and number 27

Dantes had a hard time enduring his imprisonment. Having ceased to believe in his salvation, he decided to die by starvation. A real consolation for the prisoner was the appearance of the crazy abbot, who had been digging a tunnel for a long time, but made a mistake in his calculations and ended up in Dantes’ cell.

Chapter 16. Italian scientist

Abbot Faria gave the young man “an example of desperate determination,” and he agreed to a joint escape.

Chapter 17. Abbot's Chamber

To pass the time, the old scientist began to teach Edmond various sciences.

Chapter 18. Treasures of Abbot Faria

The abbot suffered from terrible attacks, and before his death he revealed to his devoted friend the secret of the treasure hidden on the island of Monte Cristo.

Chapter 19. Third attack

The next attack was the last for Abbot Faria, and he died in Dantes’s arms.

Chapter 20. Cemetery of the Chateau d'If

Edmond pulled the abbot's corpse out of the bag, put it on his bed, and took his place in the bag. However, Dantes did not imagine that the cemetery of the Chateau d'If was the sea, where the unsuspecting gravediggers threw it.

Chapter 21. Tibulen Island

Edmond managed to reach Tibulen Island. When he was “semi-delirious from exhaustion, having lost the ability to think,” sailors who turned out to be smugglers came to his aid. “Exactly fourteen years have passed” since Dantes’ imprisonment...

Part two

Chapter 1. Smugglers

Seeing himself in the mirror, Dantham realized that the years of imprisonment had not passed without a trace - even his best friend would not have recognized him. He hired himself as a sailor to the captain of the smuggling ship, which rescued him. Three months later, he had the opportunity to find himself on the island of Monte Cristo.

Chapter 2. Monte Cristo Island

On the island, Dantes faked an accident and, pretending to be mortally wounded, asked his fellow smugglers to leave him here. They reluctantly agreed, and the ship left without him.

Chapter 3. Magic shine

After a long search, Edmond found a cave where there was a chest of jewelry. By the light of the torch, he saw gold bars and coins, "a pile of diamonds, pearls, rubies."

Chapter 4. Stranger

Having become fabulously rich, Dantes was going to “return to life, to people, and achieve position, influence and power.” He went to his native Marseille, where he learned about the death of his father, the disappearance of Mercedes and the ruin of his neighbor Caderousse, who now ran a roadside inn.

Chapter 5. Tavern "Garsky Bridge"

First of all, Dantes, under the guise of a priest, went to a wretched inn to find out from Caderousse about all the events that occurred after his imprisonment.

Chapter 6. Caderousse's story

Caderousse, who had long repented of his participation in the conspiracy against Dantes, told the abbot without concealment everything he knew. He said that the slanderer Danglars became rich and received a title, Villefort, becoming the royal prosecutor, left Marseille. Fernand made a brilliant military career and married Mercedes, while Monsieur Morrel - the only person who tried to alleviate Dantes's fate - was on the verge of ruin. In gratitude for the revelation, Dantes gave the innkeeper a large diamond.

Chapter 7. Prison lists

Dantes took over all the credit obligations of Mr. Morrel. He also managed to get acquainted with the documents of his arrest. So Dantes realized that he was behind bars due to Villefort’s fault.

Chapter 8. Trading house Morrel

Arriving at Morrel, Dantes learned that his only ship, the Pharaoh, had been wrecked in southern waters. The once enterprising merchant was ruined. Left unrecognized, Dantes gave Morrel's daughter a letter, "signed... Sinbad the Sailor."

Chapter 9. Fifth of September

When Morrel was on the verge of despair and was about to commit suicide, he learned that all his debts had been paid off by a mysterious stranger. Virtue also gave him a “diamond the size of a nut” as a dowry for his daughter, and gave him a ship - an exact copy of the “Pharaoh”.

Chapter 10. Italy. Sinbad the Sailor

During a sea voyage, the Parisian nobleman Franz d'Epinay visited a small island, the owner of which introduced himself as Sinbad the Sailor. He invited the guest to his luxurious underground castle, where he fed him and gave him hashish.

Chapter 11. Awakening

After d’Epinay woke up, he felt like “the hero of a fairy tale from the Arabian Nights.” However, Sinbad the Sailor had left the island by that time, and no one could find the entrance to the underground palace.

Chapter 12. Roman robbers

Traveling with Franz d'Epinay was the young Viscount Albert de Morcerf, the son of Fernand and Mercedes. In Rome, they learned the story of the young robber Luigi Vampa, who kept the entire area in fear.

Chapter 13. Vision

Albert and Franz d'Epinay received an invitation from their neighbor, the Count of Monte Cristo, to ride together in his carriage during the carnival.

Chapter 14. Mazzolato

Before the carnival, the city was planning to execute criminals, and Albert could not miss this spectacle. What he saw deeply struck him.

Chapter 15. Carnival in Rome

On “the last, noisiest day of the carnival,” among the noisy crowd of people having fun in carnival costumes, Franz lost sight of Albert.

Chapter 16. Catacombs of San Sebastiano

The next day, d'Epinay received a note from Albert, in which he indicated that he had been kidnapped by the famous bandit Luigi Vampa. Franz turned for help to the Count of Monte Cristo, who learned that the young man was being held in the picturesque “catacombs of San Sebastiano.” Thanks to the influence of the Count, Albert was saved.

Chapter 17. Agreement

In gratitude for the rescue, Albert invited the Count of Monte Cristo to Paris and promised his savior to introduce him to high society.

Part three

Chapter 1. Albert's guests

In Paris, Albert was preparing to receive his dear guest. On the appointed day, he gathered his friends and told them the story of his abduction.

Chapter 2. Breakfast

At the table, the Count of Monte Cristo entertained the young men with stories about his exciting adventures, which quickly earned him the reputation of “an extraordinary man, a sorcerer from the Arabian Nights.”

Chapter 3. First meeting

Albert decided to introduce his savior to his parents. Seeing the guest, Countess de Morcerf felt ill. After the Count of Monte Cristo left, she began to eagerly ask her son about him.

Chapter 4. Mister Bertuccio

The Count of Monte Cristo began purchasing a country house. All the count's affairs were handled by his assistant, manager Bertuccio. Immediately after the transaction, they went to inspect the building.

Chapter 5. House in Oteuil

From the old gatekeeper, the Count of Monte Cristo learned that the house belonged to the Marquis de Saint-Meran, whose daughter was the wife of Monsieur de Villefort. Bertuccio, unable to hide the truth, admitted to the count that many years ago it was here that he committed a murder.

Chapter 6. Vendetta

Bertuccio's elder brother, an "imperial soldier", was brutally murdered. He turned to prosecutor Villefort with a request to find the killers, or, at worst, to allocate a pension to the widow of the deceased, but he refused. Bertuccio, like a true Corsican, declared a vendetta on Villefort - blood feud. He tracked down a prosecutor who frequently visited a pregnant girl in a house in Auteuil. Seeing how Villefort buried a newborn baby, Bertuccio killed him, and gave the child a new life, giving him to his daughter-in-law to raise.

Chapter 7. Bloody Rain

Bertuccio shared another secret with the count. During the sale of the diamond, the innkeeper Caderousse killed the jeweler and his greedy wife. Caderousse fled, but was captured and "sentenced to hard labor for life."

Chapter 8. Unlimited credit

The Count of Monte Cristo managed to open an “unlimited loan” from the banker Danglars, amazed by the impressive capital of an unknown aristocrat.

Chapter 9. Dappled Gray Couple

Mr. Danglars introduced the Count to his wife, who was surprised to discover that her horses - “the best couple in Paris” - were sold to the Count of Monte Cristo for fabulous money. The Count returned her horses to the Baroness, and then saved her from a staged accident, and thus earned the recognition of the entire family.

Chapter 10. Philosophy

The Count of Monte Cristo made his next visit to the royal prosecutor Villefort. He began to boldly discuss with him the peculiarities of justice, which earned respect from the reserved and dry prosecutor.

Chapter 11. Hyde

In the house of the Count of Monte Cristo lived a beautiful young Albanian girl, Gaide. The Count warned her to keep the secret of her birth and not tell anyone her father's name. Hayde was in love with the count.

Chapter 12. The Morrel Family

Monte Cristo visited the children of the late Morrel - young Maximilian and his sister Julie, wife of Emmanuel Herbault. As soon as he entered the house, “the count felt that he was also touched by the happiness of these people,” who sincerely loved and cared for each other. They were still deeply grateful to the mysterious patron who saved their family from ruin.

Chapter 13. Pyramus and Thisbe

Valentina de Villefort, the daughter of a royal adviser from her first marriage, is in love with Maximilian Morrel. She admitted to her lover that her family, with the exception of her grandfather, was against their marriage.

Chapter 14. Toxicology

In a private conversation with Madame de Villefort, the Count of Monte Cristo began talking about poisons and their effect on the human body, which greatly interested his interlocutor.

Chapter 15. Robert the Devil

The appearance of Monte Cristo at the opera, accompanied by the beautiful Hayde, caused a real sensation in Parisian society. When the Albanian saw Fernand de Morcerf in the box, she fainted - she recognized him as the traitor who sold her father to the Turks.

Chapter 16. Exchange game

Albert admitted to the Count of Monte Cristo that his father was going to marry him to the daughter of Baron Danglars, Eugenie. The mother was against it - she had “some kind of prejudice against the Danglars.”

Chapter 17. Major Cavalcanti

Major Bartolomeo Cavalcanti arrived at Monte Cristo, for whom the count prepared the sentimental role of a widower who raised his son Andrea alone.

Chapter 18. Andrea Cavalcanti

The major’s “son” was already waiting in the count’s living room - a young attractive young man who introduced himself as Andrea Cavalcanti. Monte Cristo, just like his “father,” provided him with all the necessary instructions.

Chapter 19. Vegetable garden sown with alfalfa

When meeting with Maximilian, Valentina admitted that her stepmother was jealous of her impressive inheritance and was in every possible way opposed to the girl getting married. Madame de Villefort dreamed of taking over her stepdaughter's fortune in order to ensure a comfortable future for her son Edward, a nasty, spoiled boy.

Part four

Chapter 1. Mister Noirtier de Villefort

Villefort's old father, Mr. Noirtier, was paralyzed, but “all the energy, all the will, all the strength, all the intelligence” were concentrated in his lively and intelligent eyes. He learned that his beloved granddaughter Valentina, against her will, was going to be married off to Baron d'Epinay. The old man was against this marriage.

Chapter 2. Will

Old Noirtier made a will, according to which his entire fortune would go to the poor if Valentina married d’Epinay. However, this decision did not stop Villefort.

Chapter 3. Telegraph

The Count of Monte Cristo, having learned about the de Villefort family troubles, began to deftly manipulate family members for his own purposes. He invited the couple to a dinner party at his home in Auteuil.

Chapter 4. A way to rid a gardener of dormice eating his peaches

Monte Cristo went to the telegraph office, where he bribed the signalman and sent a false message about the escape of a major European banker. Believing this, Danglars urgently sold the bonds, losing a large sum.

Chapter 5. Ghosts

At a dinner party with Monte Cristo, he recognized Madame Danglars as a pregnant blonde. When he saw Villefort alive, he realized that he had missed many years ago, and his offender was alive.

Chapter 6. Lunch

During a sumptuous feast, the Count of Monte Cristo informed those present that a crime had been committed in this house many years ago, and in the garden he had found the “skeleton of a newborn baby.” Hearing this, Madame Danglars fainted.

Chapter 7. Beggar

After a dinner party, Andrea Cavalcanti, who turned out to be disguised as Benedetto, met an old friend, the innkeeper Caderousse, who blackmailed him into forking out money.

Chapter 8. Family Scene

After dinner at Monte Cristo, Madame Danglars remained in a state of “nervous excitement” for a long time. Left alone, the baron informed her that he knew everything about her relationship with de Villefort and pregnancy.

Chapter 9. Marriage plans

In a private conversation with Danglars, Count Monte Cristo made it clear to the banker that the best match for his only daughter would be young Andrea Cavalcanti, a descendant of a noble and very rich Italian family.

Chapter 10. The Crown Prosecutor's Office

De Villefort informed his former mistress, Madame Danglars, that "probably the baby was alive and had been saved by the murderer." He suggested that Monte Cristo knew their terrible secret.

Chapter 11. Invitation

Albert conveyed an invitation to the Count of Monte Cristo to a ball hosted by his mother.

Chapter 12. Search

Villefort began to collect information about the Count of Monte Cristo. Thanks to the count’s precautions, he “didn’t learn anything particularly comforting, but he also didn’t learn anything particularly alarming.”

Chapter 13. Summer Ball

Monte Cristo appeared at a ball given by the Countess de Morcerf.

Chapter 14. Bread and salt

During a conversation in the greenhouse, Mercedes made it clear to the count that she recognized him, and all this time she felt a sense of guilt towards him.

Chapter 15. Marquise de Saint-Meran

Villefort learned that Monsieur de Saint-Meran, the grandfather of his daughter Valentina, had died. The grief-stricken Marquise de Saint-Meran asked that Valentina's wedding take place as quickly as possible so that she could bless her granddaughter.

Chapter 16. Promise

Morrel urged Valentina to fight for their happiness, but the girl could not violate “the orders of her father, the will of her dying grandmother.” The young man managed to convince his beloved to run away with him, but she never showed up at the appointed hour. Morrel learned that the reason for this was the sudden death of her grandmother. According to the doctor, it was poisoning from a plant poison. Unexpectedly for himself, Morrel found support in the person of old Noirtier.

Chapter 17. Crypt of the Villefort family

After the de Saint-Meran couple were buried in the family crypt, Villefort expressed to d’Epinay the wish of the deceased “that Valentina’s wedding should not be postponed under any circumstances.”

Chapter 18. Protocol

Before the engagement, old Noirtier invited Franz d'Epinay to his place and revealed to him the secret of his father's death. Noirtier was responsible for the death of the brave general.

Chapter 19. Successes of Cavalcanti-son

While visiting the Danglars, executive Andrea Cavalcanti, who perfectly assumed his role, did his best to make a pleasant impression on the whole family.

Chapter 20. Hyde

At Albert's request, Monte Cristo introduced him to his pupil, Hayde. With her master's permission, she told the young man the sad story of her family.

Part five

Chapter 1. They write to us from Ioannina

It became clear that after the confession of the old man Noirtier, “the marriage of Valentina and Franz cannot take place.” Baron Danglars refused the Comte de Morcerf to marry his daughter to his son. Albert informed Monte Cristo that he was going to fight a duel with the editor of a newspaper that reported the betrayal of his father, Fernand de Morcerf, while serving under Ali Pasha.

Chapter 2. Lemonade

The old man's faithful servant Noirtier drank the lemonade intended for his master and died in terrible agony. The doctor who arrived to him found out that it was poison, “which kills without leaving almost any traces.”

Chapter 3. Accusation

The doctor proved to Villefort that the death of the de Saint-Meran couple and the attempt on the life of old Noirtier were the work of a cold-blooded killer. All the evidence pointed to the fact that “Mademoiselle de Villefort is a criminal, a poisoner.”

Chapter 4. The baker's retirement home

Andrea Cavalcanti asked Danglars for the hand of his only daughter and received consent. From Andrea Caderousse learned the exact location of the house of the Count of Monte Cristo, whom he decided to rob.

Chapter 5. Hacking

The next day, Monte Cristo received a note in which an unknown person warned him about the robbery. Having learned that the criminal was his old acquaintance Caderousse, the count disguised himself as a priest. Taking the thief by surprise, he forced him to write a note for Danglars, in which he revealed the whole truth about the origin of Andrea Cavalcanti, the escaped convict Benedetto.

Chapter 6. Right Hand of the Lord

When Caderousse was leaving the house of Monte Cristo, he was attacked by Benedetto and mortally wounded. Thus died the first person from the list of those whom the count intended to take revenge on.

Chapter 7. Beauchamp

The marriage of Danglars' daughter and Andrea Cavalcanti "has already been officially announced." The newspaper editor Beauchamp met with Albert Morcerf. He conducted his own investigation and was able to collect evidence of the vile betrayal of his father, Fernand de Morcerf.

Chapter 8. Travel

Monte Cristo invited Albert to unwind a little, and they went on a sea voyage. On the way, Albert learned that another newspaper had published his father's secret.

Chapter 9. Court

The Comte de Morcerf was terribly "shocked by this immense and unexpected calamity." He wanted to defend his honor in the House of Peers, but his plans were ruined by the appearance of Hayde. She brought evidence of his former betrayal, and the meeting found the count guilty.

Chapter 10. Challenge

In the course of a little investigation, Albert learned that "Monte Cristo was undoubtedly in conspiracy with the enemies of his father."

Chapter 11. Insult

Albert de Morcerf demanded an explanation from the Count of Monte Cristo, and then challenged him to a duel.

Chapter 12. Night

At night, Mercedes came to the count to ask for mercy for her son. Edmond told his beloved the whole truth about his arrest. He promised her that Albert would not die.

Chapter 13. Duel

Monte Cristo wrote his will because he was going to die in a duel. However, Albert publicly asked him for forgiveness for the insult. Edmond realized that Mercedes had told her son everything.

Chapter 14. Mother and son

Albert Mercedes, without saying a word, decided to leave the house. The young man admitted that “he cannot bear the name of a man who must blush in front of people.”

Chapter 15. Suicide

The Count de Morcerf came to Monte Cristo to demand an explanation. Upon learning that Edmond Dantes was in front of him, the count committed suicide.

Chapter 16. Valentine

Valentina's health deteriorated sharply. She started taking the medicine her grandfather gave her, but ended up having an attack.

Chapter 17. Confession

Old man Noirtier managed to save his granddaughter from certain death, “accustoming her little by little” to the effects of poison.

Chapter 18. Banker and his daughter

On the eve of the wedding, Danglars' daughter announced to her father that she did not intend to marry Andrea Cavalcanti. Having learned that her father was broke and needed her help, the girl changed her mind.

Chapter 19. Marriage contract

During the wedding of Andrea Cavalcanti and Danglars' daughter, the Count of Monte Cristo revealed the true face of the imaginary Italian prince.

Chapter 20. Road to Belgium

The gendarmes arrived, but Andrea managed to escape. Taking advantage of the turmoil, Danglars' daughter went to Belgium with a close friend to start a new life.

Part six

Chapter 1. Hotel "Bell and Bottle"

The gendarmes found Andrea at the hotel and took him into custody.

Chapter 2. Law

Madame Danglars came to Villefort to ask for leniency towards Andrea, so as not to cause even more excitement around her family, but the royal prosecutor was adamant.

Chapter 3. Vision

The Count of Monte Cristo came to Valentina, who for several days and nights guarded the girl from a new attempt at poisoning.

Chapter 4. Locusta

The killer turned out to be Madame de Villefort. The Count of Monte Cristo asked Valentina to trust him and swallow “a pill the size of a pea.”

Chapter 5. Valentine

Looking at the frozen Valentina, Madame de Villefort realized that “the terrible thing, the last of her plans, had finally come true” and the girl died. The doctor diagnosed poisoning.

Chapter 6. Maximilian

Maximilian Morrel, who arrived at the scene of the tragedy, stated that “Valentina was killed,” and the royal prosecutor must find and punish the killer.

Chapter 7. Danglars' signature

With the help of clever fraud, the Count of Monte Cristo managed to finally ruin his main enemy, Danglars.

Chapter 8. Père Lachaise Cemetery

At the Monte Cristo cemetery, seeing Morrel, he realized that he was planning to die after his beloved. To stop the young man, the count would be forced to admit that he is Edmond Dantes, the secret benefactor of the Morrel family.

Chapter 9. Division

Baroness Danglars received a letter from her husband, who informed her of his escape with all his savings.

Chapter 10. Lion's Den

Andrea, who had been languishing in prison all this time, received hope for a speedy release from the Count of Monte Cristo.

Chapter 11. Judge

Villefort firmly stood on the idea that “justice should be done.” He ordered his wife to commit suicide with poison, which she used to poison four people.

Chapter 12. Session

Villefort went to the court hearing in the case of Andrea Cavalcanti. Those present at the trial were much more interested in another question - who was the true poisoner in the de Villeforts' house.

Chapter 13. Indictment

During the interrogation, Andrea Cavalcanti caused a big scandal by revealing the name of his real father, the royal prosecutor de Villefort. Shocked to the core, Villefort confessed everything.

Chapter 14. Redemption

Returning home, Villefort discovered that his wife had poisoned not only herself, but also her son. When he learned that the executor of heavenly punishment was Edmond Dantes, “the impenetrable darkness of madness swallowed Villefort.”

Chapter 15. Departure

Monte Cristo visited Mercedes, and an explanation took place between the former lovers - they forgave each other in order to say goodbye forever.

Chapter 16. Past

The Count of Monte Cristo visited the castle, which was no longer a prison. Having been in prison, where he spent 14 years, he found answers to the questions that tormented him.

Chapter 17. Peppino

Hiding from financial responsibility, Danglars fell into the hands of the same Italian robbers, whose victim was once Albert de Morcerf.

Chapter 18. Luigi Vampa Price List

Danglars, suffering from severe hunger, was forced to give all his money to the robbers in exchange for food.

Chapter 19. Forgiveness

When Danglars was driven to extremes by the pangs of hunger, Edmond Dantes appeared and granted him forgiveness.

Chapter 20. Fifth of October

Maximilian Morrel came to the count on his island of Monte Cristo. Valentina was waiting for him there, whose death was skillfully staged by the count and old man Noirtier. Monte Cristo left the island with his concubine Hayde, leaving the island and all his treasures to the lovers. Finally, he asked them to never forget that “all human wisdom is contained in two words: Wait and hope!”

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