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The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

Anonymous (1846)

Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo was serialized in the Paris Journal des Débats between 1844 and 1846, at the height of the roman-feuilleton boom that made Dumas the most widely read novelist in Europe. Its story — the sailor Edmond Dantès, imprisoned for fourteen years on a false denunciation, who escapes with a hidden fortune and returns as an inscrutable nobleman to ruin the three men who condemned him — fixed the pattern of the modern revenge narrative while pressing, through Dantès's own late misgivings, the question of whether any man may act as the instrument of Providence. This is the anonymous English translation first published in 1846, the version in which the novel has been read in English ever since.

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Contents

  1. Book I
    1. Chapter 1: Marseilles—The Arrival
    2. Chapter 2: Father and Son
    3. Chapter 3: The Catalans
    4. Chapter 4: Conspiracy
    5. Chapter 5: The Marriage Feast
    6. Chapter 6: The Deputy Procureur du Roi
    7. Chapter 7: The Examination
    8. Chapter 8: The Château d’If
    9. Chapter 9: The Evening of the Betrothal
    10. Chapter 10: The King’s Closet at the Tuileries
    11. Chapter 11: The Corsican Ogre
    12. Chapter 12: Father and Son
    13. Chapter 13: The Hundred Days
    14. Chapter 14: The Two Prisoners
    15. Chapter 15: Number 34 and Number 27
    16. Chapter 16: A Learned Italian
    17. Chapter 17: The Abbé’s Chamber
    18. Chapter 18: The Treasure
    19. Chapter 19: The Third Attack
    20. Chapter 20: The Cemetery of the Château d’If
    21. Chapter 21: The Island of Tiboulen
    22. Chapter 22: The Smugglers
    23. Chapter 23: The Island of Monte Cristo
    24. Chapter 24: The Secret Cave
    25. Chapter 25: The Unknown
    26. Chapter 26: The Pont du Gard Inn
    27. Chapter 27: The Story
  2. Book II
    1. Chapter 28: The Prison Register
    2. Chapter 29: The House of Morrel & Son
    3. Chapter 30: The Fifth of September
    4. Chapter 31: Italy: Sinbad the Sailor
    5. Chapter 32: The Waking
    6. Chapter 33: Roman Bandits
    7. Chapter 34: The Colosseum
    8. Chapter 35: La Mazzolata
    9. Chapter 36: The Carnival at Rome
    10. Chapter 37: The Catacombs of Saint Sebastian
    11. Chapter 38: The Rendezvous
    12. Chapter 39: The Guests
    13. Chapter 40: The Breakfast
    14. Chapter 41: The Presentation
    15. Chapter 42: Monsieur Bertuccio
    16. Chapter 43: The House at Auteuil
    17. Chapter 44: The Vendetta
    18. Chapter 45: The Rain of Blood
    19. Chapter 46: Unlimited Credit
    20. Chapter 47: The Dappled Grays
  3. Book III
    1. Chapter 48: Ideology
    2. Chapter 49: Haydée
    3. Chapter 50: The Morrel Family
    4. Chapter 51: Pyramus and Thisbe
    5. Chapter 52: Toxicology
    6. Chapter 53: Robert le Diable
    7. Chapter 54: A Flurry in Stocks
    8. Chapter 55: Major Cavalcanti
    9. Chapter 56: Andrea Cavalcanti
    10. Chapter 57: In the Lucern Patch
    11. Chapter 58: M. Noirtier de Villefort
    12. Chapter 59: The Will
    13. Chapter 60: The Telegraph
    14. Chapter 61: How a Gardener May Get Rid of the Dormice that Eat His Peaches
    15. Chapter 62: Ghosts
    16. Chapter 63: The Dinner
    17. Chapter 64: The Beggar
    18. Chapter 65: A Conjugal Scene
    19. Chapter 66: Matrimonial Projects
    20. Chapter 67: The Office of the King’s Attorney
    21. Chapter 68: A Summer Ball
    22. Chapter 69: The Inquiry
    23. Chapter 70: The Ball
    24. Chapter 71: Bread and Salt
    25. Chapter 72: Madame de Saint-Méran
    26. Chapter 73: The Promise
  4. Book IV
    1. Chapter 74: The Villefort Family Vault
    2. Chapter 75: A Signed Statement
    3. Chapter 76: Progress of Cavalcanti the Younger
    4. Chapter 77: Haydée
    5. Chapter 78: We hear From Yanina
    6. Chapter 79: The Lemonade
    7. Chapter 80: The Accusation
    8. Chapter 81: The Room of the Retired Baker
    9. Chapter 82: The Burglary
    10. Chapter 83: The Hand of God
    11. Chapter 84: Beauchamp
    12. Chapter 85: The Journey
    13. Chapter 86: The Trial
    14. Chapter 87: The Challenge
    15. Chapter 88: The Insult
    16. Chapter 89: The Night
    17. Chapter 90: The Meeting
    18. Chapter 91: Mother and Son
    19. Chapter 92: The Suicide
    20. Chapter 93: Valentine
    21. Chapter 94: Maximilian’s Avowal
    22. Chapter 95: Father and Daughter
  5. Book V
    1. Chapter 96: The Contract
    2. Chapter 97: The Departure for Belgium
    3. Chapter 98: The Bell and Bottle Tavern
    4. Chapter 99: The Law
    5. Chapter 100: The Apparition
    6. Chapter 101: Locusta
    7. Chapter 102: Valentine
    8. Chapter 103: Maximilian
    9. Chapter 104: Danglars’ Signature
    10. Chapter 105: The Cemetery of Père-Lachaise
    11. Chapter 106: Dividing the Proceeds
    12. Chapter 107: The Lions’ Den
    13. Chapter 108: The Judge
    14. Chapter 109: The Assizes
    15. Chapter 110: The Indictment
    16. Chapter 111: Expiation
    17. Chapter 112: The Departure
    18. Chapter 113: The Past
    19. Chapter 114: Peppino
    20. Chapter 115: Luigi Vampa’s Bill of Fare
    21. Chapter 116: The Pardon
    22. Chapter 117: The Fifth of October