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The Count of Monte Cristo
A hundred and seventeen days of revenge, beginning the morning the Pharaon sails into Marseilles.
- Next cohort
- Next cohort 24 February
- Length
- Length 117 days
On 24 February 1815 a young sailor brings his ship home to Marseilles, is promoted captain, and is engaged to be married, all in one day. By that night he has been arrested on a charge he does not understand and is on his way to an island prison. The Count of Monte Cristo is what happens over the next twenty-three years: an escape, a treasure, and a revenge worked out so slowly and so completely that it becomes a kind of judgement. Dumas wrote it as a newspaper serial, and it reads best that way: a hundred and seventeen chapters, one a day, through the spring.
Read one big book alongside other readers, a day at a time. Cohorts set off on the date above.
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Day by day
- Day 1. I. Marseilles: The ArrivalAlexandre Dumas, 20 min
- Day 2. II. Father and SonAlexandre Dumas, 20 min
- Day 3. III. The CatalansAlexandre Dumas, 20 min
- Day 4. IV. ConspiracyAlexandre Dumas, 20 min
- Day 5. V. The Marriage FeastAlexandre Dumas, 20 min
- Day 6. VI. The Deputy Procureur du RoiAlexandre Dumas, 20 min
- Day 7. VII. The ExaminationAlexandre Dumas, 20 min
- Day 8. VIII. The Château d’IfAlexandre Dumas, 20 min
- Day 9. IX. The Evening of the BetrothalAlexandre Dumas, 20 min
- Day 10. X. The King’s Closet at the TuileriesAlexandre Dumas, 20 min
- Day 11. XI. The Corsican OgreAlexandre Dumas, 20 min
- Day 12. XII. Father and SonAlexandre Dumas, 20 min
- Day 13. XIII. The Hundred DaysAlexandre Dumas, 20 min
- Day 14. XIV. The Two PrisonersAlexandre Dumas, 20 min
- Day 15. XV. Number 34 and Number 27Alexandre Dumas, 20 min
- Day 16. XVI. A Learned ItalianAlexandre Dumas, 20 min
- Day 17. XVII. The Abbé’s ChamberAlexandre Dumas, 20 min
- Day 18. XVIII. The TreasureAlexandre Dumas, 20 min
- Day 19. XIX. The Third AttackAlexandre Dumas, 20 min
- Day 20. XX. The Cemetery of the Château d’IfAlexandre Dumas, 20 min
- Day 21. XXI. The Island of TiboulenAlexandre Dumas, 20 min
- Day 22. XXII. The SmugglersAlexandre Dumas, 20 min
- Day 23. XXIII. The Island of Monte CristoAlexandre Dumas, 20 min
- Day 24. XXIV. The Secret CaveAlexandre Dumas, 20 min
- Day 25. XXV. The UnknownAlexandre Dumas, 20 min
- Day 26. XXVI. The Pont du Gard InnAlexandre Dumas, 20 min
- Day 27. XXVII. The StoryAlexandre Dumas, 20 min
- Day 28. XXVIII. The Prison RegisterAlexandre Dumas, 20 min
- Day 29. XXIX. The House of Morrel & SonAlexandre Dumas, 20 min
- Day 30. XXX. The Fifth of SeptemberAlexandre Dumas, 20 min
- Day 31. XXXI. Italy: Sinbad the SailorAlexandre Dumas, 20 min
- Day 32. XXXII. The WakingAlexandre Dumas, 20 min
- Day 33. XXXIII. Roman BanditsAlexandre Dumas, 20 min
- Day 34. XXXIV. The ColosseumAlexandre Dumas, 20 min
- Day 35. XXXV. La MazzolataAlexandre Dumas, 20 min
- Day 36. XXXVI. The Carnival at RomeAlexandre Dumas, 20 min
- Day 37. XXXVII. The Catacombs of Saint SebastianAlexandre Dumas, 20 min
- Day 38. XXXVIII. The RendezvousAlexandre Dumas, 20 min
- Day 39. XXXIX. The GuestsAlexandre Dumas, 20 min
- Day 40. XL. The BreakfastAlexandre Dumas, 20 min