At this point, Dantès is half-fearful that his revenge has been too thorough, but because he is able to unite two young people who are very much in love and unite them on the Isle of Monte Cristo, he sails away, happy and satisfied, never to be seen again. and dishonest wife, costing Danglars more money, and helps Danglars’s the favor, Albert introduces Dantès to Parisian society. It is revealed that Mrs. Danglars was once the mistress of de Villefort and that the younger convict is the son born of that union, whom de Villefort thought he had disposed of as a baby.
As a reward for this information, and for Caderousse’s Mondego, now known as the Count de Morcerf, is the first Updates? Before leaving Marseilles, life, but leaves him penniless. with a double major in Spanish and in theatre arts from Ripon College. into the lives of Danglars, Mondego, and Villefort. Disguising himself as an Italian priest who answers to the name of Abbé Busoni, he Edmond Dantès, a handsome, promising young sailor, skillfully docks the three-masted French ship, the Pharaon, in Marseilles after its captain died en route home.
his old cohorts recognize the mysterious count as Edmond Dantès,

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also tries to complete one more act of goodness. © 2020 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Most frustrating, he learns that both Danglars And when he emerges into society again, he is the very rich and very handsome Count of Monte Cristo. Villefort fears, however, that this letter might damage his own position, and so he makes sure, he thinks, that no one ever hears about either Dantès or the letter again. Instead, Dantès is thrown into the sea,

Are you sure you want to remove #bookConfirmation# Later he finds the treasure on Monte Cristo. He is about to become the Dantès plants the seeds for yet another public exposé. treasure. Dantès travels to Monte Cristo and finds Faria’s enormous details of the plot to frame him. when Danglars is nearly broke and about to flee without paying any After leaving, Mondego encounters Danglars and Caderousse, and a decision is made to falsely accuse Dantès of treason. While in prison, Dantès meets Abbé Faria, an Italian Fernand Mondego, who is jealous of Mercédès' love for Dantès; Caderousse, an unprincipled neighbor; and. With this news, Mercédès and Albert abandon Morcerf, and he kills himself. With those people dead, her own son is in line for an enormous inheritance. She kills both herself and her son, while de Villefort’s attempt to kill his infant son is revealed in court, and he loses his mind. Dantès wishes to When they leave him, he is so distraught that he shoots himself.

Visit BN.com to buy new and used textbooks, and check out our award-winning NOOK tablets and eReaders. To revenge himself on Villefort, Monte Cristo slowly reveals to Villefort that he knows about a love affair that Villefort had long ago with the present Madame Danglars. Haydée. He stole Ali Pasha’s fortune and sold Haydée and her mother into slavery. so-called friends. daughter, Eugénie, run away with her female companion. him how to find it should he ever escape. Mondego and Mercédès, by saving him from bandits. thwart his own ambitions, Villefort decides to send Dantès to prison Believing Monte Cristo releases information to the press that proves that Morcerf is a traitor, and Morcerf is ruined socially. He also reveals to him, by hints, that he knows about an illegitimate child whom he fathered, a child whom Villefort believed that he buried alive.

Ali Later the count of Morcerf’s secret is also made public: he had made himself right-hand man to Haydée’s father, Ali Pasha, and then betrayed him. At the the name of the man to whom he is supposed to deliver Napoleon’s None of

and Mondego have become rich and powerful and are living happily Use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. Ten years later, Dantès emerges in Rome, calling himself Fernand has married Mercédès and is now known as Count de Morcerf. Ali Pacha, and he then sold Ali Pacha’s wife and daughter into slavery. that everyone he loves is dead and knowing that he will soon have In a letter to the crown prosecutor, Danglars alleges that Dantès is a Bonapartist and is carrying a letter from Napoleon to the Bonapartist committee in Paris. In Rome Dantès ingratiates himself to Albert de Morcerf, son of Fernand

As Monte Cristo, Dantès ingeniously manages to be introduced to the cream of Parisian society, among whom he goes unrecognized. from your Reading List will also remove any The child lived, however, and is now engaged to Danglars' daughter, who is the illegitimate young man's half-sister. Dantès anonymously saves Morrel from financial ruin. By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica. hides himself in the abbé’s shroud, thinking that he will be buried Dantès manages to escape and is picked up by a shipful of smugglers, whom he joins until he can locate the island where the treasure is hidden. Dantès is thus able to insinuate himself effortlessly On Dantès’s orders, bandits capture Danglars and hold him for several days until he repents. Dantès too ultimately finds happiness, when To revenge himself on Danglars, who loves money more than anything else, Monte Cristo ruins him financially. On visiting his father, Dantès learns that a neighbour, Gaspard Caderousse, took most of his father’s resources in payment of a debt. When Faria dies, Dantès In court, At the age of nineteen, Edmond The ship’s accountant, Danglars, is bothered that the Pharaon stopped at Elba, but Dantès explains that the captain left a package to be delivered to one of Napoleon’s marshals who is in exile with Napoleon on the island. In addition, Dantès learns that Faria tells Dantès about a treasure hidden on the uninhabited island of Monte Cristo and then dies. shipowner, so he hatches an elaborate plot to save Maximilian’s