"The Count of Monte Cristo" tells of Edmond Dantès, falsely imprisoned, who escapes, finds a hidden fortune, and returns transformed to exact an intricate revenge. Its sweep of betrayal, escape, and retribution makes it one of the greatest adventure novels ever written.
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- Daniel Defoe — Robinson Crusoe (1719)
- Sir Walter Scott — Ivanhoe (1819)
- Alexandre Dumas — The Three Musketeers (1844)
- Herman Melville — Moby Dick (1851)
- Jules Verne — Around the World in Eighty Days (1873)
- Robert Louis Stevenson — Treasure Island (1883)
- Howard Pyle — The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883)
- H. Rider Haggard — King Solomon's Mines (1885)
- Robert Louis Stevenson — Kidnapped (1886)
- Anthony Hope — The Prisoner of Zenda (1894)
- Jack London — The Call of the Wild (1903)
- Baroness Orczy — The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905)
- Jack London — White Fang (1906)
- Arthur Conan Doyle — The Lost World (1912)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs — Tarzan of the Apes (1912)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs — The Land That Time Forgot (1918)
- Rafael Sabatini — Scaramouche (1921)
- Alexandre Dumas — Twenty Years After (1845)
- Tobias Smollett — The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
- Tobias Smollett — The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom (1753)