The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Edmund Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of providence.

In his campaign of vengeance, he becomes an anonymous agent of fate.This title is part of a wonderful new series, Express Classics, offering a quick way into a range of exciting stories.

Fast-moving and accessible, each story is a shortened, dramatically illustrated version of the classic novel, which loses none of the strength and flavour of the original.

Express Classics include biographical details of the original author and an 8 page glossary.