exander Dumas' masterpiece, "The Count
of Monte-Cristo," is a novel that will delight, entertain and instruct
all who read it. It has wonderful fascination, absorbing interest and
rare merit, combined with remarkable power, amazing ingenuity and
thorough originality. In it the narrative is taken up immediately at the
close of "The Count of Monte-Cristo," and continued in a style of
exceeding cleverness. There is a terrible volcanic tempest on the
Mediterranean, in which Monte-Cristo and Haydee are wrecked, a vivid
picture of the French Revolution of 1848 is given and the love affair of
Zuleika and Giovanni Massetti is recounted in a manner unsurpassed for
novelty and excitement. The central figure is Edmond Dantes, and about
him are grouped Mercedes, Eugenie Danglars, Louise d'Armilly, Valentine
de Villefort, Esperance (the son of Monte-Cristo), Benedetto, Albert de
Morcerf, Maximilian Morrel, Ali and the other old friends of
"Monte-Cristo" readers, as well as numerous political leaders famous in
French history, namely, Lamartine, Ledru Rollin, Louis Blanc, Armand
Marrast, Flocon, Albert and others. Thiers, Guizot, Odillon Barrot,
General Lamoriciere, General Bugeaud and other noted historical
characters are introduced, as well as Lucien Debray, Chateau-Renaud,
Beauchamp, etc. No one can afford to miss the opportunity to read
"Edmond Dantes," which is published only by T. B. Peterson & Brothers,
who also issue the only correct, complete and unabridged editions of the
other volumes of the great "Monte-Cristo" Series, namely, "The Count of
Monte-Cristo," "The Countess of Monte-Cristo," "The Wife of
Monte-Cristo, Haydee," and "The Son of Monte-Cristo, Esperance."_

CONTENTS.

Chapter. Page.
I. STORM AND SHIPWRECK, 21

II. THE ISLAND, 38

III. THE CONFLAGRATION, 55

IV. THE NEWS FROM ALGERIA, 70

V. EDMOND DANTES, DEPUTY FROM MARSEILLES, 82

VI. THE MYSTERY THICKENS, 91

VII. DANTES AND HIS DAUGHTER, 100

VIII. A VAST PRINTING HOUSE, 116

IX. ARMAND MARRAST, 126

X. THE COMMUNISTS, 134

XI. "WAIT AND HOPE,"