Edmond Dantès

About the book

Edmond Dantes and Haydee begin this continuation aboard a yacht, looking toward a shared future after the events of Alexandre Dumas's novel. Their apparent security is soon disturbed by danger at sea, and Flagg carries the narrative onward into another generation and a changing political world. Monte-Cristo's extraordinary resources remain important, but family attachments and public responsibilities create demands beyond the completion of a private revenge. The story eventually draws him into French political affairs around the revolution of 1848, while younger characters introduce fresh romantic complications. Written by Flagg rather than Dumas, the sequel adopts the original's appetite for dramatic reversals and elaborate connections. Readers encounter a deliberate continuation that asks what further adventures might follow a hero whose earlier purpose appeared fulfilled.

• Life after revenge
• Family and responsibility
• Revolution and public life

Why read it

The shift toward family and political commitments offers a revealing later writer's interpretation of Monte-Cristo's future.

English enlarged edition published by Allison