The Son of Monte Cristo, Volume II (of II) by Alexandre Dumas, Fiction

THE COUNT IS BACK In The Count of Monte Cristo, Edmond Dantes was a young sailor who, in 1815, returned to Marseilles with great expectations.

But Dantes' enemies had him imprisoned in the dungeons of ChAteau D'If.

In prison, Dantes met and befriended an Italian abbE who educated him and then, in death, helped him esca