Social conflicts are portrayed as quick transients of villains with distorted notions of dignity, honor, and heroism. In the historical novels of the popular French writer, justice has always prevailed, and a stable social harmony has been established in their finale - pests are invariably cruelly punished, villains are excluded from a decent society, peace in the kingdom, and the faith of good-natured men have been restored. The novel by Alexander Dumas-father "Count Monte Cristo" is published in the magazine of the Parisian Journal of Dibats in the period 28 August - 18 October 1844. It was published in a separate volume by the Parisian publisher Petion in 1844. Immediately after his first publication, the novel about the prisoner on the Isle Island achieved incredible success, which continues until today.
On February 24, 1815, just before the Hundred Days of Napoleon I / March 20 - June 22, 1815, Marseille arrived in Marseille the ship of wealthy ship owner Morel, known as Pharaoh, Commanded by the young Edmond Dantys has replaced his previous captain who died during the long voyage. Treated by the shipowner, the young Dantes is on the brink of happiness. Soon he will be appointed a permanent captain of the ship - an appointment that will allow him to secure the life of his aged father and then marry his beloved, beautiful Catalan Mercedes. Dantes happiness, however, is perceived as an unfortunate success and as an insurmountable offense by his envious and longtime enemies. The neglected by his beloved Mercedes rival, fisherman Fernan, the Treasurer of the Dangler ship, who aspires to the captain's post and his envious friend, accuse him of hiding his names, based on unwarranted but sophisticated "evidence" that he was Agent Bonaparte. Dantes was arrested during his wedding ceremony. Attacked with a heavy indictment by the magistrate-royalist Wilfor / Villefort / he defends his innocence. Unfortunately, Dantes is, without himself knowing, a carrier of a vilfering father of a vassal / compelling bonafarer / letter. Having understood this, the magistrate announced Dantes as a dangerous enemy of the state and sent him to plunder without verdict in the gloomy dungeons of the fortified castle on the island of Af. He came into the damp and dark cell, broken by his complete despair, Dantes is about to put an end to his own life.
Another prisoner rescues him, Abbath Faria, who, in strange circumstances, finds himself in his cell. The abbot has long digged an underground tunnel to escape, but has misled the calculations and finds himself in the cell of Dantes . Using the knowledge of life and Christian wisdom, the clergyman takes up the spiritual cleansing of the unjustly accused youth. Meanwhile his abbot reveals his secret: he is the heir of an incomplete treasure buried in the Isle of Ef on which the castle was built. The two inmates plan to escape together freely, but Abbath Faria dies of exhaustion. Before he died, he bequeathed his treasure to Dantes and gave him an opportunity to get out of prison. Instead of the dead man in his coffin, to be thrown into the sea, Dantes entered. Released after 14 years of captivity, who has now become the owner of the vast legacy of Phariei, Dantes returns to Marseilles. There he realized his father had died of hunger, and his fiancée had married the fisherman Fernan. On the basis of his logically arranged assumptions, according to Dantes narrative, the abbot Pharia in the prison has revealed to him those who have sent him behind the bars. Dantes conducts his own investigation using the suspect / Caderousse to see for himself how the conspiracy against him was organized. He saves Kadrus, the least guilty, from the misery in which his sole loyal friend, the shipowner Morel, has fallen and rewarded, saving him from ruin, without revealing his true identity. Then Dantes goes to the East.