A wrongfully imprisoned man escapes, acquires a fortune, and methodically exacts revenge on those who betrayed him.
Books mentioned in The Count of Monte Cristo (4)
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes: “He borrowed this from "Don Quixote," the only book he had ever read, but which he still slightly remembered.”
The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: “She expected every moment that she should see Morrel appear, pale and trembling, to forbid the signing of the contract, like the Laird of Ravenswood in "The Bride of Lammermoor."”
A Thousand and One Nights: “Since, the evening before, he had really been the hero of one of the tales of the "Thousand and One Nights," and he was irresistibly attracted towards the grotto.”
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri: “A man, too, who could boast of Dante for a genealogist, and could reckon back to the 'Divine Comedy.”
Books that mention The Count of Monte Cristo (13)
My Ántonia by Willa Cather: “The Count of Monte Cristo,' which I had seen James O'Neill play that winter, was by the only Alexandre Dumas I knew.”
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain: “We saw the damp, dismal cells in which two of Dumas' heroes passed their confinement--heroes of “Monte Cristo.””
The Man of Property by John Galsworthy: ““Why, you’re quite a Monte Cristo!” This celebrated novel—one of the half-dozen he had read”
Peter Ibbetson by George du Maurier: “Then came the Count of Monte-Cristo, who taught me (only too well) his terrible lesson of hatred and revenge”
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell: “That's Escape from Colditz stuff, that's The Count of Monte Cristo, and people eat that shit with a spoon.”
Italo Calvino by Martin McLaughlin: “he had spent hours listening to an old convict reading The Count of Monte Cristo out loud and had enjoyed that very much”
Nights of Plague by Orhan Pamuk: “Princess Pakize has managed to solve the mystery of a murder...just by reading The Count of Monte Cristo!”
On Literature by Umberto Eco: “discussed as an example of naive vs. critical reading”
The Uses of Literature by Italo Calvino: “Analyzed as drawn from a supernovel that contains all possible variants of the life story of Edmond Dantès”
t zero by Italo Calvino: “Let us call Alexandre Dumas the writer who must deliver to his publisher as soon as possible a novel in twelve volumes entitled The Count of Monte Cristo.”
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver: “exactly as Count Dantès in The Count of Monte Cristo had reached through the bars to touch his bride's face”
The Disappearers by Marlon James: “First he asked me if I ever read The Count of Monte Cristo, which I have”