Edward Dant's The Count Of Monte Cristo

Set against the turbulent years of the Napoleonic era, The Count of Monte Cristo is the story of a betrayed young man named Edward Dantès. The book weaves a tale out of his long years in captivity deep inside the Château d’lf, his miraculous escape, and his carefully thought out revenge. Readers find out that there is a reason for everything the Count does, even if they cannot see it right away. All of the Count’s decisions lead to the eventual downfall and ruin of the people that are, in his mind, the guiltiest in the betrayal that lead to his imprisonment. While he is imprisoned Dantès figures out (with the help of Abbè Faria) that the three most responsible parties are Monsieur Danglars, Fernand, and Monsieur de Villefort, so he sets out
When it is discovered that Edmond Dantès has a letter from the island of Elba, where Napoleon is confined, to be delivered to Villefort's father. Villefort, in order to protect his own interest, has Dantès imprisoned in the impregnable fortress of the Chateau d'If, from which there is no escape. Because of his political ambitions, Villefort is willing to have an innocent man imprisoned for life. Thus, he becomes the central enemy against whom the Count of Monte Cristo affects revenge. During Dantès' fourteen years of imprisonment, Villefort uses all sorts of conniving means to achieve the powerful post of Deputy Minister of France; he becomes the most powerful law enforcement man in the nation. He also has had an affair with a woman who becomes the Baroness Danglars, and Villefort uses his wife's family mansion (Monte Cristo later purchases this mansion) to conceal his mistress while she is pregnant. When the child is born, Villefort announces that the child is stillborn and takes the child in a box to the garden, where he plans to bury him alive. However, an assassin who has a vendetta for Villefort stabs him and, thinking that the box contains treasure, he takes it, only to find that it contains an infant who is ultimately raised by him and his sister-in-law. The boy is named Benedetto, and he will later be brought back to Paris by Monte Cristo as Prince Cavalcanti and will accuse his own father, Villefort, of all of his dastardly deeds. This is part of Monte Cristo's revenge: A son whom the father tried to kill as an infant becomes the instrument of Divine Justice and accuses and destroys the evil father. The other part of his revenge is that after all the hard work