cdm's review of The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel written …

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It's a wonderful novel
Was shortened a lot
It's about a young captain who gets innocent into prison because other people in the same village are jealous about his career and want his girlfriend
He is for around 15 years innocent in prison, he meets a mysterious old man there
This mysterious is very wise and knows about an old treasure
The old man dies and gives him the information where the treasure is
Then he becomes very rich by using the treasure and meets the people which put him into prison again
He helps the people which helped him
He takes revenge on the people who betrayed him