- The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. رواية من نمط المغامرات
- It is often considered to be, along with The Three Musketeers, Dumas's most popular work.
- Like many of his novels, it is expanded from the plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghost writer Auguste Maquet.
- The story takes place in France, Italy, islands in the Mediterranean and the Levant during the historical events of 1815–1838 (from just before the Hundred Days through to the reign of Louis-Philippe of France).
- The historical setting is a fundamental element of the book.
- It is an adventure story primarily concerned with themes of hope, justice, vengeance, mercy and forgiveness.
- The book is considered a literary classic today.
- According to Luc Sante, "The Count of Monte Cristo has become a fixture of Western civilization's literature, as inescapable and immediately identifiable as Mickey Mouse, Noah's flood, and the story of Little Red Riding Hood."
- The original work was published in serial form in the Journal des Débats in 1844.
- Luc Sante describes the effect in Europe at the time as follows:
The effect of the serials, which held vast audiences enthralled ... is unlike any experience of reading we are likely to have known ourselves, maybe something like that of a particularly gripping television series. Day after day, at breakfast or at work or on the street, people talked of little else.
- George Saintsbury stated that "Monte Cristo is said to have been at its first appearance, and for some time subsequently, the most popular book in Europe.
- Perhaps no novel within a given number of years had so many readers and penetrated into so many different countries."
- This popularity has extended into modern times as well.
- The book was "translated into virtually all modern languages and has never been out of print in most of them.
- There have been at least twenty-nine motion pictures based on it ... as well as several television series, and many movies [have] worked the name 'Monte Cristo' into their titles."
- The title Monte Cristo lives on in a "famous gold mine, a line of luxury Cuban cigars, a sandwich, and any number of bars and casinos—it even lurks in the name of the street-corner hustle three-card monte."

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