Alexandre Dumas 
The Count of Monte Cristo 

In February of 1815, in Marseille, the sailor Edmond Dantes is falsely accused of Bonapartism and arrested on their wedding day, on the threshold of a brilliant naval career. While imprisoned in the Chateau d'If, a rock in the middle of the sea, fosters a fierce hatred for the perpetrators of his downfall, and when the friendship with another prisoner gives him evasion as well as a fabulous treasure, will put in place a great vengeance and merciless.