书名：The Count of Monte Cristo基督山伯爵
作者：Alexandre Dumas
出版社名称：Bantam Classics
出版时间：1985

语种：英语
ISBN：9780553213508
商品尺寸：10.6 x 2.2 x 17.4 cm
包装：平装
页数：544（以实物为准）

《基督山伯爵》是通俗历史小说，法国著名作家大仲马（1802-1870）的代表作。故事讲述19世纪法国皇帝拿破仑“百日王朝”时期，法老号大副爱德蒙·邓蒂斯受船长委托，为拿破仑党人送了一封信，遭到两个卑鄙小人和法官的陷害，被打入黑牢。狱友法利亚神甫向他传授各种知识，并在临终前把埋于基督山岛上的一批宝藏的秘密告诉了他。邓蒂斯越狱后找到了宝藏，成为巨富，从此化名基督山伯爵（水手辛巴德、布索尼神父、威尔莫勋爵），经过精心策划，报答了恩人，惩罚了仇人。充满传奇色彩，奇特新颖，引人入胜。

In the post-Napoleonic era, Edmond Dantès, a young sailor from Marseilles, is poised to become captain of his own ship and to marry his beloved. But spiteful enemies provoke his arrest, condemning him to lifelong imprisonment. Then Edmond’s sole companion in prison reveals his secret plan of escape and a letter with directions to hidden riches on the island of Monte Cristo—a treasure trove that will eventually fund Edmund’s dream of creating a new identity for himself: the mysterious and powerful Count of Monte Cristo.

大仲马，诞生于法国北部的维莱—科特雷镇。年幼丧父，长大后到巴黎工作，并阅读大量文学、历史、哲学和自然科学等书籍。因为看了伦敦剧团在巴黎演出的莎士比亚戏剧而受到很大的衝击，开始了他戏剧与小说的创作生涯。他的第二个戏剧《亨利三世及其宫廷》，不仅以「历史剧」的文体开创新的文学领域，也奠定了浪漫主义戏剧的创作原则。这是大仲马在法国文学发展史上的一大贡献。

大仲马是十九世纪最多产而且深受读者欢迎的作家之一。其作品保守估计至少有九十部戏剧以及一百五十部小说。其中著名小说有《基督山恩仇记》，《三剑客》(1844)，《玛歌王后》（1845）等等。

Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) lived a life as romantic as that depicted in his famous novels. He was born in Villers-Cotterêts, France. His early education was scanty, but his beautiful handwriting secured him a position in Paris in 1822 with the du’Orléans, where he read voraciously and began to write. His first play, Henri III et sa cour (1829), scored a resounding success for its author and the romantic movement. His lavish spending and flamboyant habits led to the construction of his fabulous Château de Monte-Cristo, and in 1851 he fled to Belgium to escape creditors. Dumas’s overall literary output reached more than 277 volumes, but his brilliant historical novels made him the most universally read of all French novelists. With collaborators, mainly Auguste Maquet, Dumas wrote such works as The Three Musketeers (1843–1844); its sequels, Twenty Years After (1845) and the great mystery The Man in the Iron Mask (1845–1850); and The Count of Monte Cristo (1844). His work ignored historical accuracy, psychology, and analysis, but its thrilling adventure and exuberant inventiveness continued to delight readers, and Dumas remains one of the prodigies of nineteenth-century French literature.