Friday #56, #58 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

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• Grab a book 
• Turn to page 56 or 56% in your e-reader
• Find any sentence (or a few, don't spoil it) 

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Happy Reading

Series: N/A
# of Pages: 1276
Publication: 1844
Genre: Classic
Source: Owned Copy

In 1815 Edmond Dantès, a young and successful merchant sailor who has just recently been granted the succession of his erstwhile captain Leclère, returns to Marseille to marry his Catalan fiancée Mercédès. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantès is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration.

I'm working with a whole group of people on Goodreads to tackle this classic over the course of the next two months. I've read The Three Musketeers by Dumas before and really enjoyed it so I'm interested in stepping into this beast of a book and figuring out whether I'll enjoy it as much. Political intrigue and more begins within the first ten pages of the book. If you've never read this book before, I would definitely recommend checking it out.

" 'Ah, Monsieur de Villefort,' said a pretty young thing, the daughter of the Comte de Salvieux and a friend of Mlle de Saint-Meran, 'do please try to have a fine trial while we are in Marseille. I have never been to a court of assizes, and I am told it is most interesting." 

Happy Reading!