The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by French author Alexandre Dumas (pere) completed in 1844. It is one of the author's most popular works, along with The Three Musketeers. Like many of his novels, it is expanded from plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter Auguste Maquet. The story takes place in France, Italy, and islands in the Mediterranean during the historical events of 1815-1839: the era of the Bourbon Restoration through the reign of Louis-Philippe of France. It begins just before the Hundred Days period (when Napoleon...

Alexandre Dumas (24 July 1802 - 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas, pere, was a French writer. His works have been translated into nearly 100 languages, and he is one of the most widely read French authors. Many of his historical novels of high adventure were originally published as serials, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later. His novels have been adapted since the early twentieth century for nearly 200 films. Dumas' last novel, The Knight of Sainte-Hermine, unfinished at his death, was...

Los Caballeros Templarios, (en frances: templiers), fue una de las mas poderosas ordenes militares cristianas de la Edad Media. Se mantuvo activa durante algo menos de dos siglos. Fue fundada en 1118 o 1119 por nueve caballeros franceses liderados por Hugo de Payns tras la Primera Cruzada. Su proposito original era proteger las vidas de los cristianos que peregrinaban a Jerusalen tras su conquista. La orden fue reconocida por el patriarca latino de Jerusalen Garmond de Picquigny, que le impuso como regla la de los canonigos agustinos del Santo Sepulcro. Este libro al que nos referimos...

'To have discovered the black tulip, to have seen it for a moment...then to lose it, to lose it forever ' Cornelius von Baerle, a respectable tulip-grower, lives only to cultivate the elusive black tulip and win a magnificent prize for its creation. But after his powerful godfather is assassinated, the unwitting Cornelius becomes caught up in deadly political intrigue and is falsely accused of high treason by a bitter rival. Condemned to life imprisonment, his only comfort is Rosa, the jailer's beautiful daughter, and together they concoct a plan to grow the black tulip in secret. Dumas' last...