Edmond Dantes was a young sailor who, in 1815, returned to Marseilles with great expectations. But Dantes's enemies had him imprisoned in the dungeons of Ch teau D'If. Doomed to rot in prison, Dantes met and befriended an Italian abb who educates him and then, in death, helped him escape with a fabulous secret of a treasure on the island of Monte Cristo. Then, rich and posing as the Count of Monte Cristo, Dantes returned with...