內容簡介
基度山恩仇記
年輕有為的水手愛德蒙‧鄧蒂斯，擔任法老號上的大副。原本將要成為法老號的船長，同時迎娶心愛的女人美茜蒂絲為妻，卻在訂婚宴當天被密告為拿破崙支持者的密探被捕入獄。鄧蒂斯原本相信檢察官會為自己證明清白，卻不幸被檢察官犧牲。他也因此被關到伊夫堡的地牢，面臨痛苦的冤獄生涯。
鄧蒂斯在隔離且不見天日的地牢生活中，因緣際會結識了法利亞神父，並且得到基督山島上有寶藏的秘密。鄧蒂斯成功從伊夫堡逃走後，成功取得寶藏。
他回到故鄉後得知自己的父親因病身亡，而未婚妻嫁給仇人之一。他的三位仇人如今在巴黎皆為上流社會中顯貴之人，而對他有恩的船主卻瀕臨破產危機。重獲自由又擁有財富的他自稱為基督山伯爵，精心策畫復仇的每一步。不管是採取直接或間接的方式，基督山伯爵利用每個人的個性與弱點，開始展開打擊與報復對方的行為。開始了一連串報恩與復仇的計畫。而巴黎的上流社會也出現了讓社交圈驚奇不已且討論不盡的流言蜚語——死亡，罪行與醜聞。
A beautiful new clothbound edition of Alexandre Dumasˊ classic novel of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of the Château dˊIf. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and becomes determined not only to escape but to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. A huge popular success when it was first serialized in the 1840s, Dumas was inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment when writing his epic tale of suffering and retribution.
作者介紹
Alexandre Dumas was born in 1802 at Villers-Cotterets in France. He received very little education but when he entered the household of the future king, Louis-Philippe, he began to read voraciously and then to write. He is best remembered for his historical novels, The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. Dumas died in 1870. Robin Buss was a writer and translator who worked for the Independent on Sunday and as television critic for The Times Educational Supplement. He published critical studies of works by Vigny and Cocteau, and three books on European cinema, The French Through Their Films (1988), Italian Films (1989) and French Film Noir (1994). He also translated a number of volumes for Penguin Classics. He died in 2006.
