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If you were gripped by The Count of Monte Cristo's epic story of betrayal, imprisonment, and systematic revenge
Dumas's great adventure novel has enthralled readers for nearly two centuries with its combination of swashbuckling action, elaborate intrigue, and the irresistible story of a man who turns misfortune into the ultimate power. These books share its pace, its dramatic reversals, and its concern with justice, identity, and the meaning of revenge.
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Buy on AmazonThe Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas
Dumas's companion — D'Artagnan and the musketeers in the France of Louis XIII; the companion adventure novel in the same serial tradition, written the same year as Monte Cristo.
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Buy on AmazonLes Misérables
by Victor Hugo
Hugo's companion in the great nineteenth-century French epic — Jean Valjean's nineteen years of imprisonment and his long struggle for redemption are the companion to Dantès's fourteen years of imprisonment and his long career of revenge.
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Buy on AmazonPère Goriot
by Honoré de Balzac
Balzac's companion in the French novel of social ambition and the corrupt world of Paris — the realist counterpart to Monte Cristo's melodrama of revenge.
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
by Baroness Orczy
Orczy's companion in the historical adventure novel about a man who constructs a secret identity to fight corrupt authority — the English parallel to Monte Cristo's transformation from imprisoned sailor to fabulously wealthy Count.
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Buy on AmazonCaptain Alatriste
by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Pérez-Reverte's companion — the Spanish historical adventure series about a soldier and swordsman in seventeenth-century Madrid; the modern heir to the swashbuckling tradition Dumas established.
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Buy on AmazonThe Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
Eco's companion in the elaborate historical mystery — where Monte Cristo sets up an impossibly complex revenge plot with dozens of moving parts, Eco sets up an impossibly complex murder mystery in a medieval monastery; both novels reward the reader who enjoys a grand, carefully constructed plot.
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Buy on AmazonPrisoner of Zenda
by Anthony Hope
Hope's companion in the adventure novel about a commoner who assumes the identity of a nobleman — the English adventure parallel to Monte Cristo's transformation from Edmond Dantès to the Count.
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Buy on AmazonThe Man in the Iron Mask
by Alexandre Dumas
Dumas's companion — the final volume of the Three Musketeers trilogy, which can be read independently; for readers who want more Dumas after Monte Cristo, this is the essential next step.
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