Price: $13.90 (Excluding GST)

Author: Alexandre Dumas

Retold: Karen Holmes

Published: 2008

Publisher: Penguin Pearson

Format: Paperback (Penguin Readers Series)

Pages: 56

Suitable: Middle Primary / Senior Primary

Penguin Readers Level 3 - 1200 Headwords

Penguin Readers are simplified texts which provide a step-by-step approach to the joys of reading for pleasure

Edmond Dantes is a happy young seaman. He is popular with his employer and the men on his ship, and he has a beautiful lover, Mercedes. But he also has enemies who tell lies about him. On the day of his wedding he is thrown into prison. There he meets a man who tells him about some treasure on the island of Monte Cristo. Will Edmond escape from prison? Will he find the treasure? And will he ever return to Mercedes?