Streszczenie książki Edmond Dantès

The story in 10 parts

1. Key idea 1 · free to read

   A calm sea becomes a wrecking storm

   The story begins at dawn on the yacht Alcyon. The Count watches the Isle of Monte-Cristo shrink behind him, where Maximilian Morrel and Valentine de Villefort stand waving. He tells Haydée that God made the young pair happy and that he was only an instrument. He adds that he regrets taking vengeance into his own hands.

   On the evening of October 15 he offers Haydée her freedom before he marries her. She accepts it only so she can give herself to him by choice. Lightning flashes in a cloudless sky, and he calls it the seal of God on their betrothal.

   Then the sea goes wrong. The lightning brings no thunder, the water boils, the compass spins, and the rudder tears loose. The steward Bertuccio, haunted by old crimes, decides that Heaven hunts the yacht because of him, and he leaps into the water. The Alcyon slams onto a great rock, and the Count jumps into the surf with Haydée in his arms.

   A man who has taken justice into his own hands cannot leave the consequences behind.

2. 2

   A shipwrecked count plans to free Europe

   Ten years later, on the little Greek island of Salmis, an old fisherman named Alexis tells how he found the Count and Haydée washed up on the beach.

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3. 3

   Benedetto returns and the palace burns

   A note tied to a palm tree summons the Count to an almond grove at midnight.

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4. 4

   Paris wonders who the great deputy is

   In the autumn of 1841, in a shabby newspaper office, the journalist Beauchamp has printed a dispatch from Algeria that no other paper has.

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5. 5

   A hidden empire of presses and wires

   At night in his library, Dantès remembers being torn from his wedding feast at twenty and kept fourteen years in a dungeon.

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6. 6

   An opera night brings old ghosts together

   All Paris awaits a new prima donna, Louise d'Armilly, who is to sing Lucrezia Borgia.

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7. 7

   Three days of barricades bring down a king

   On the night of February 21, 1848, a party at the house of Gaultier de Rumilly fills with leaders of every faction.

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8. 8

   The Republic is born and Dantès chooses silence

   After the Chamber falls, the mob turns on the royal palaces.

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9. 9

   An oath of silence threatens a young love

   The private plot runs beside the public one.

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10. 10

    How the story weaves history, love and masks

    The book moves between two kinds of storytelling.

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