University of Virginia Library

THE GREAT HISTORICAL ROMANCE!

THE
COUNT OF MONTE-CRISTO.

BY ALEXANDRE DUMAS,
AUTHOR OF “THE THREE GUARDSMEN,” “TWENTY YEARS AFTER,”
ETC., ETC.

PRICE ONE DOLLAR.

WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS.

BURGESS, STRINGER AND COMPANY

Have just issued a perfect and faithful translation of this powerful and magnificent
Romance—a work which the Paris Reviewers assert to have thrown
Hugo, Balzac, and Sue, in the shade, and which has already taken the reading
community here by surprise.

The conception of the plot is both striking and original. A man, young,
generous, tender and resolute, is through the malice and injustice of others
condemned to waste his life in a prison. He has the good fortune to come
out with his powers unbroken. The company of one of those persons, so far
beyond their age in intellect that it deems them mad, has educated him. Destiny
makes him master of an immense fortune. The dreadful loss in the years
of life, the robbery of its bloom might have been compensated by improvement
in the fruit, had he, on leaving his dungeon, found his affections safe from the
havoc of the storm. But his father is head of starvation, the woman whom he
loved, and from whom he had been torn on the eve of marriage, has forgotten
him and given herself to his rival. His heart becomes rigid and lost to all loving
trust in the Power who had permitted such appalling blights to fall on him
and on his fellow-men.

The book is full of brilliant scenes; the rough sketches of character and
place are always good. There are many passages showing knowledge of the
passions and that fermentation in the dregs of life commonly called the world,
which no other man could write. Monte-Cristo, abstinent in the midst of
pleasures, feeding silently on his own heart, lets all the personages play out
their natural parts, only furnishing the occasions and means for them to use or
misuse, according to their tendencies. Dumas is of a liberal and sumptuous
nature; his African blood is warm, and in his pages we accordingly discover
the glowings of a heart gushing with feeling, as well as a hand nerved to pen
the effusions of an intellect, strong aud vigorous from his innate genius and
study.

The work is published in one large Volume, likewise in two Volumes;—in
either form it is sold at One Dollar, accompanied by Twelve splendid Engravings.

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