Count of Monte Cristo. Alexandre Dumas. 2003.

The story of Edmond Dante’s, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo , is told with consummate skill. The victim of a miscarriage of justice. Dante’s is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a strike of providence. In his campaign of vengeance, he becomes an anonymous agent of fate. 

Dumas’ novel presents a powerful conflict between good and evil embodied in an epic saga of rich diversity that is complicated by the hero’s ultimate discomfort with the hubristic implications of his own actions.