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The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas · Grades 9–12
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Each disguise and delayed consequence tightens the moral question until Dantès must reckon with suffering he never meant to cause.
Edmond Dantès escapes wrongful imprisonment, gains a fortune, and constructs elaborate punishments for the men who betrayed him.
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Faith and worldview: The novel weighs providence, justice, vengeance, mercy, loyalty, and the danger of treating oneself as the final judge of other lives.
Contains imprisonment, murder, suicide, poisoning, drug use, attempted infanticide, execution, adultery, and prolonged revenge.
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