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Edmond Dantès lost it all, becoming the Count of Monte Cristo to seek revenge against those who wronged him in this classic tale of betrayal and vengeance by Alexandre Dumas. Summary of the Book Edmond Dantès was a lucky man. The lovely Mercédès was besotted with him. He was going to be promoted the same day of his marriage, and he had some money set aside to keep his aging father happy in his last years. However, destiny was not kind to Dantès , and soon his life turned upside down. His enemies, the diabolical Gérard de Villefort. Danglars and Fernand set him up as a supporter of Napoleon Bonaparte and thus a traitor of France. He is quickly dispatched to the Château d'If, a lonely prison on a distant island. Six years later, his life is over, and all he can do is kill himself. However, destiny again turns his life, and this time introduces him to the man in the cell beside his. He begins to talk to this Mad Priest, and discovers that the man had been digging a tunnel. A miscalculation led to their two cells being connected, and the two begin speaking. The priest teaches Dantès about language, culture, and science over the period of the next eight years and reveals to him that he had obviously been betrayed by Danglars, Fernand, and Villefort. When the man dies, Dantès takes his place in the body sack and is thrown into the ocean by the guards, swimming to safety. He remembers the Mad Priest’s directions towards a large treasure, and takes it for his own to exact revenge on his betrayers. His quest leads him back, not as the naïve Edmond Dantès , but as the cunning, intelligent and completely revenge-driven Count of Monte Cristo. About Alexandre Dumas Alexandre Dumas, père, was a French writer, best remembered for his D'Artagnan romances, which include: The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later. His last novel The Last Cavalier, was published posthumously in English in 2008.