The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
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The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
| Full title | The Count of Monte Cristo |
|---|---|
| Author | Alexandre Dumas |
| Published | 1844 |
| Pages | 1,240 |
| Recommended | 3 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Dumas’s revenge epic: Edmond Dantès is imprisoned on a false denunciation, escapes with a fortune, and spends the rest of the novel engineering the ruin of the men who put him there. |
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
Where I heard about it
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Replies to @moseskagan — named in the thread answering “What historical fiction should I read next?”, April 2025.
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Founders Classical Academy of Lewisville, Texas — on its sixth-grade reading list, marked abridged, posted by the Classic Learning Test in September 2026. Full sequence: Founders Classical Academy Reading List.
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On Patrick Collison’s Bookshelf — Patrick Collison’s catalog of the physical books he owns, where he flags this one as substantially above average (light blue). Saved in Kyle’s April 19th, 2020 Roam daily note.
Connections
- What historical fiction should I… (tweet) — the saved thread this recommendation came from.
- Historical Fiction · Alexandre Dumas · Literature · The Count of Monte Cristo — where this sits in the corpus.
- Founders Classical Academy Reading List — also assigned in the sixth-grade year at Founders Classical Academy of Lewisville, a classical school in Texas (Classic Learning Test, 22 September 2026).
What links here
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