Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantčs is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration.
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) was a French novelist best known for The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. The grandson of a marquis and the son of a famous general, Dumas was a prolific playwright, travel-writer, and head of a production studio who chose his enslaved grandmothers surname for his professional nom de plume.
