The Count of Monte Cristo / Ο κόμης Μοντεχρίστο

The story of Edmund Dantes, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, is told with consummate skill. The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of providence. In his campaign of vengeance, he becomes an anonymous agent of fate. The sensational narrative of intrigue, betrayal, escape, and triumphant revenge moves at a cracking pace.
Dumas’ novel presents a powerful conflict between good and evil embodied in an epic saga of rich diversity that is complicated by the hero’s ultimate discomfort with the hubristic implication of his own actions.

Ο ήρωας του έργου είναι ένας γνήσιος λαϊκός ήρωας, που ενσαρκώνει τα όνειρα κάθε απλού ανθρώπου για πλούτο, παντοδυναμία, δικαιοσύνη και, τελικά, ευτυχία και αληθινό έρωτα.