The Count of Monte Cristo&nbsp;(French:&nbsp;Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an&nbsp;adventure novel&nbsp;written by French author&nbsp;Alexandre Dumas&nbsp;(père) completed in 1844. It is one of the author's more popular works, along with&nbsp;The Three Musketeers. Like many of his novels, it was expanded from plot outlines suggested by his collaborating&nbsp;ghostwriter&nbsp;Auguste Maquet.The story takes place in France, Italy, and islands in the&nbsp;Mediterranean&nbsp;during the historical events of 1815–1839: the era of the&nbsp;Bourbon Restoration&nbsp;through the reign of&nbsp;Louis-Philippe of France. It begins on the day that&nbsp;Napoleon&nbsp;left his first island of exile, Elba, beginning the&nbsp;Hundred Days&nbsp;period when Napoleon returned to power. The historical setting is a fundamental element of the book, an adventure story centrally concerned with themes of hope, justice, vengeance, mercy, and forgiveness. It centers on a man who is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes from jail, acquires a fortune, and sets about exacting revenge on those responsible for his imprisonment.Before he can marry his fiancée Mercédès,&nbsp;Edmond Dantès, a nineteen-year-old Frenchman, and first mate of the&nbsp;Pharaon, is falsely accused of treason, arrested, and imprisoned without trial in the&nbsp;Château d'If, a grim island fortress off&nbsp;Marseille. A fellow prisoner, Abbé Faria, correctly deduces that his jealous rival Fernand Mondego, envious crewmate Danglars, and double-dealing magistrate De Villefort turned him in. Faria inspires his escape and guides him to a fortune in&nbsp;treasure. As the powerful and mysterious Count of&nbsp;Monte Cristo&nbsp;(Italy), Dantès arrives from the Orient to enter the fashionable Parisian world of the 1830s and avenge himself on the men who conspired to destroy him.The book is considered a&nbsp;literary classic&nbsp;today. According to&nbsp;Lucy Sante, "The Count of Monte Cristo&nbsp;has become a fixture of Western civilization's

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