The Count of Monte Cristo

696 pages, hardback.Pocket size (10 x 15.5 cm). This classic adventure, set in nineteenth-century France and Italy, tells the story of Edmund Dants, a young man falsely imprisoned who eventually finds himself in a position of power and able to seek his revenge against those who plotted against him. Eventually he begins to question his obsessive search for revenge. This edition has been sensitively abridged.With an Afterword by Marcus Clapham.