1001 Stories For The Road

Franz and Albert finalloy get their chance to meet the mysterious Coiunt of Monte Cristo, who offers them a ride to see the beginning of the big celebration, which kicks off with a beheading. Stop by our website at www.bestof1001stories.com Support us at patreon ! Visit www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork 

Franz and Albert take in an opera, and while Albert is busy checking out the ladies with his early version of binoclars Franz spies a beautiful Greek Lady in the box across the way accompanied by two men, one, a black man, and two, a shadowwy figure in a cloak.   Enjoy our website at www.bestof1001stories.com- over 2,500 stories to enjoy!  

Franz and Albert arrive in Rome for the big celebration and the innkeeper at first advises them to avoid the coliseum, which is the top tourist site, at night. Albert scoffs at the advice and the innkeeper Pastrini tells a long story about how the top outlaw got his rank. Franz is surprised to hear the outlaw knows Sinbad the Sailor. Albert ignores the story and the warnings.

Franz and Albert Montcerf take a sightseeing trip to Rome and decide to risk being attacked by brigands by taking a risky path outside the city...

  Publication The Count of Monte Cristo was originally published in the Journal des Débats in eighteen parts. Serialization ran from 28 August 1844 to 15 January 1846. The first edition in book form was published in Paris by Pétion in 18 volumes with the first two issued in 1844 and the remaining sixteen in 1845.[11] Most of the Belgian pirated editions, the first Paris edition and many others up to the Lécrivain et Toubon illustrated edition of 1860 feature a misspelling of the title with "Christo" used instead of "Cristo". The first edition to feature the correct spelling was the L'Écho des Feuilletons illustrated edition, Paris 1846. This edition featured plates by Paul Gavarni and Tony Johannot and was said to be "revised" and "corrected", although only the chapter structure appears to have been altered with an additional chapter entitled La Maison des Allées de Meilhan having been created by splitting Le Départ into two.[12] Front page of translation into Judeo-Tunisian Arabic, 1889 English translations

A young, adventurous Baron named Franz DiPinay ventures onto the island of Monte Cristo when the boat he had hired to take him elsewhere comes ashore after spotting a campfire on the beach. Franz becomes the first to be entangled in the intricate web of revenge that Dantes has planned- 

Reception and legacy The original work was published in serial form in the Journal des Débats in 1844. Carlos Javier Villafane Mercado described the effect in Europe: The effect of the serials, which held vast audiences enthralled ... is unlike any experience of reading we are likely to have known ourselves, maybe something like that of a particularly gripping television series. Day after day, at breakfast or at work or on the street, people talked of little else.   . The Montecristo Cuban cigar brand is allegedly named after the fondness of cigar rollers for listening to the novel read by a lector during their work. George Saintsbury stated that "Monte Cristo is said to have been at its first appearance, and for some time subsequently, the most popular book in Europe. Perhaps no novel within a given number of years had so many readers and penetrated into so many different countries."[19] This popularity has extended into modern times as well. The book was "translated into virtually all modern languages and h

An Englishman from a firm to which Morell owes money stops by for a long talk with Morrell...who is awaiting news of his ship.

Background to elements of the plot A short novel titled Georges by Dumas was published in 1843, before The Count of Monte Cristo was written. This novel is of particular interest to scholars because Dumas reused many of the ideas and plot devices in The Count of Monte Cristo.[5] Dumas wrote that the germ of the idea of revenge as one theme in his novel The Count of Monte Cristo came from an anecdote (Le Diamant et la Vengeance[6]) published in a memoir of incidents in France in 1838, written by an archivist of the Paris police.[7][8] The archivist was Jacques Peuchet, and the multi-volume book was called Memoirs from the Archives of the Paris Police in English.[9] Dumas included this essay in one of the editions of his novel published in 1846.[10] Peuchet related the tale of a shoemaker, Pierre Picaud, living in Nîmes in 1807, who was engaged to marry a rich woman when three jealous friends falsely accused him of being a spy on behalf of England in a period of wars between France and England. Picaud was place

The innkeeper takes time to give the traveller answers regarding persons of the past whom he knew well....

A solitary priest approaches a small empty tavern near the banks of a river and inquires of the owner, who name we know.   Our website: www.bestof1001stories.com

Dantes visits the old home of his father and also searches Catalan for Mercedes

This is one chapter we've all been waiting for....

Dante's ship mates decide on taking a one day rest for repairs at the Island of Monte Cristo, which gives Dantes and excuse to look around without being suspected.

Dantes gets closer to his goalof being able to explore the Island of Monte Cristo

Dantes takes a big chance 

Dantes's dungeon mate suffers his third attack and he tries to save him but has no success. He overhears the jailer say they will remove the body that night. Dantes has a plan.

The old man, now fully trusting Dantes, reveals the size and location of the treasure which had been bequesthed to him by the last living member of the wealthy Spada family for which he had worked.  Dantes is finally convinced the abbe is not mad.  Enjoy great literature with my narration at these two podcasts: 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales 1001 Stories From The Gilded Age   Our website:  www.bestof1001stories.com  

The Abbe shows Dantes how he keeps time without a watch, how he writes his manuscripts using ink and pens he has created, and many other useful things. When Dantes asks if the Abbe can help him solve how it was that he (Dantes) ended up in prison the Abbe, through a seies of questions and answers,implicates Danglers and Villaforte in their crimes- and for the first time Dantes realizes how he has been duped. He vows revenge.

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