📖 The Count of Monte Cristo

When a young Edmond Dantes is imprisoned on falsified charges of treason by his supposed friends right before he is to marry his fiancée, he is imprisoned without trial on the grim fortress of Château D'if, a prison island. During his attempts to escape, he meets a fellow prisoner named Abbé Faria, who he learns from. The Abbé deduces that his friends had conspired against him in order to further their own interests. The Abbé also educates Dantes, and tells him about a secret treasure that Faria had discovered previously. Motivated by vengeance, he escapes, finds the treasure, and with it, prepares his revenge against his former friends. Set in the early 1800s, the book overlaps many of the events surrounding Napoleon's exile and return to power, with Dantes being accused of being one of Napoleon's supporters, and Napoleon's defeat and characters' loyalties for and against Napoleon being central to the plot. I recommend this book because of its detailed and intriguing but not too difficult to follow plot, conflicting themes of vengeance and forgiveness, and the setting of the whole book make it a fascinating, yet lengthy read.

年轻的埃德蒙·但丁(Edmond Dantes)在与未婚妻結婚之前,被他所谓的朋友以伪造的叛国罪指控被捕,他未经审判就含冤被关押在监狱岛Château D'if的严峻堡垒中。 在策划越狱的过程中,他遇到并受教于Abbé Faria狱友。 Abbé推断,是Dante的所谓朋友为了他们的私利而密谋诬陷他。Abbe还告诉他入狱之前发现的秘密宝藏。终于,Dante成功越狱,并找到了宝藏,以新的身份开始了他的复仇之旅。 这本书以19世纪初为背景,围绕拿破仑流放和重新掌权的许多历史事件重叠在一起,但丁被指控是拿破仑的支持者之一。在这个动荡的时代下,故事中人物围绕着对拿破仑的反抗或对拿破仑的忠诚而展开。 我推荐这本书,因为它细腻而耐人寻味,情节清晰,在复仇和宽恕的主題中折转,以及书中的历史背景使它成为一本虽然冗长但引人入胜的读物。 Peyton Hayward (UG 9-12 ) Due on the 12th and 27th of each month