Download or read book The Count of Monte-Cristo - Volume II written by Anonymous and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-12-05 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Count of Monte-Cristo is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, written with the collaboration of Auguste Maquet and completed in 1844. It is partially inspired by real events, very distantly borrowed from the life of Pierre Picaud. The book tells how, at the beginning of the reign of Louis XVIII, on February 24, 1815, the day Napoleon left the island of Elba, Edmond Dantès, a young sailor of nineteen, mate of the ship Le Pharaon, landed in Marseille for s 'get engaged the next day with the Catalan Mercédès. Betrayed by jealous "friends", he was denounced as a Bonapartist conspirator and locked up in a jail in the Château d'If, off the coast of Marseille.