The epic tale of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge, in its definitive translation

Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantès is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to use the treasure to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. Dumas' epic tale of suffering and retribution, inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, was a huge popular success when it was first serialized in the 1840s.

Translated with an Introduction by ROBIN BUSS

The classic tale of royal conspiracy and forbidden romance during the sixteenth-century French Wars of Religion by the author of The Three Musketeers.

Paris, 1572. For a decade, French Catholics and Protestant Huguenots have been locked in a violent struggle for control of France. Though King Charles IX reigns, it is his mother, Catherine de Medici, who holds sway. In a gesture of peace, Catherine arranges for her daughter Margot to marry the Huguenot king of Navarre, Henri de Bourbon—while secretly arranging the slaughter of thousands of Protestants gathering in Paris to celebrate the wedding.

When Aramis, one of the three musketeers, discovers that the king of France has a twin brother, he plans a coup d’état in an attempt to secretly replace King Louis with his brother Philippe. Entrusting his secret plan to Porthos, Raoul, and D’Artagnan, the friends pit themselves against the power of the French monarchy.

The Man in the Iron Mask is the last volume of the D’Artagnan Romances, and has been published on its own and also as the final volume in the The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later, a large novel that encompasses the four final D’Artagnan volumes. The story detailed in this volume inspired the 1998 film The Man in the Iron Mask starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jeremy Irons.

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«Decía para sí que era el odio de los hombres, no la venganza de Dios, el que lo hundió en aquella sima.»

Edmundo Dantés, un joven marinero que siempre ha llevado una vida tranquila, solo desea casarse con la hermosa Mercedes. Pero sus planes se malogran cuando su mejor amigo, Fernando, le traiciona vilmente para conquistar a su prometida. Edmundo vivirá una larga pesadilla de trece años mientras cumple una condena injusta en la siniestra prisión del castillo de If. Obsesionado por su inesperado destino, dejará de lado sus convicciones para urdir la venganza perfecta.

El conde de Montecristo es uno de los clásicos más populares y trepidantes de todos los tiempos. La presente edición contiene las dos partes que componen la obra, así como una magistral introducción de Jean-Yves Tadié, catedrático emérito de la Universidad de La Sorbona.