Project gutenberg offers 62,060 free ebooks to download. The count of monte cristo is a classic french novel. It was written in 1844 and is now in the public domain. With jacques weber, carla romanelli, jeanfrancois poron, christiane kruger. A tv miniseries adaptation of the classic alexandre dumas novel. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Like many of his novels, it was expanded from plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter auguste maquet. It is one of the authors more popular works, along with the three musketeers. From the outset it was meant to so, mixed feelings about this book. The count of monte cristo english version, unabridged. I finished a 1400 page novel in french, even if it took me 5 months t home. Edmond dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, chateau dif. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the chateau dif, got on board the vessel between cape morgion and rion island.