On the eve of his wedding, a young sailor named Edmond Dant s is wrongly accused of treason and imprisoned for life in the Ch teau d\'If, a reputedly impregnable island fortress.
Set against the dramatic upheavals of the years after Napoleon, Alexandre Dumas\'s epic.
After a daring escape, Dant s unearths a treasure revealed to him by another prisoner and devotes the rest of his life to tracking down and punishing the enemies who wronged him, in disguise as the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo.
On the eve of his wedding, a young sailor named Edmond Dant s is wrongly accused of treason and imprisoned for life in the Ch teau d\'If, a reputedly impregnable island fortress