The victim of a miscarriage of justice, the Count of Monte Cristo is
fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of
providence. In his campaign of vengeance, he becomes an anonymous agent
of fate. The sensational narrative of intrigue, betrayal, escape, and
triumphant revenge moves at a cracking pace. Alexandre Dumas' novel
presents a powerful conflict between good and evil embodied in an epic
saga of rich diversity that is complicated by the hero's ultimate
discomfort with the hubristic implication of his own actions.