Imagine being 19 or 20 on your wedding day, and the police come and whisk you off to jail where you sit for 20 years. You find an opportunity to escape and do....then you discover a large treasure to set you financially for the rest of your life. What do you do?Edmund Dantes in Alexandre Dumas' Monte Cristo goes on a wild adventure to discover why he was accused of this crime and avenge the wrong done to him. He hunts out his finace` to find her married with a son. Edmund is a fabulous hero/anti-hero depends on how you view his actions. There is a moral dilemma here - is revenge okay? Does Edmund have a right to go after those who wronged him?
This book has a vast array of characters that fill the pages and I recommend it highly.
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