The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
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Recommended by 10 notable people, including Patrick Collison and Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Recommended by 12 sources and appears in Revenge, Fiction, and For Men.
Abridged by Lowell Blair.Set against the turbulent years of the Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas's thrilling adventure story is one of the most widely read romantic novels of all time. In it the dashing young hero, Edmond Dantès, is betrayed by his enemies and thrown into a secret dungeon in the Chateau d'If doomed to spend his life in a da...
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Recommended by 12 sources and appears in Revenge, Fiction, and For Men.
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