Count of Monte Cristo (Граф Монте Кристо); Wordsworth Editions, 2002

The story of Edmund Dantes, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, is told with consummate skill. The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of providence. In his campaign of vengeance, he becomes an anonymous agent of fate. The sensational narrative of intrigue, betrayal, escape, and triumphant revenge moves at a cracking pace. Dumas`novel presents a powerful conflict between good and evil embodied in an epic saga of rich diversity that is complicated by the hero`s ultimate discomfort with the hubristic implication of his own actions.