Monte-Cristo’s Daughter by Edmund Flagg

Description

When a book as enormous as The Count of Monte-Cristo ends, readers want more — and in 1886 American author and journalist Edmund Flagg supplied it. Monte-Cristo’s Daughter is his ambitious continuation of Dumas’s great romance and the conclusion of his own earlier sequel Edmond Dantes, published in a Petersburg series that kept the Dantès family saga alive on both sides of the Atlantic.

The Count has come to Rome to see his daughter Zuleika complete her convent education, and his plans for a quiet season are undone on the first page: a mysterious prima donna at the opera recoils at the very sight of him, and the young Viscount Giovanni Massetti, the suitor who once saved Zuleika’s life on a bridge, is accused of abducting and attacking the flower-girl Annunziata Solara. All Rome believes the accusation. To win back his daughter’s happiness, the Count must turn investigator, which brings him face to face with an old enemy’s schemes and the bandit Luigi Vampa — and to the island of Monte-Cristo itself.

Why it rewards the faithful reader

• Edmond Dantès doing what he does best: untangling a plot aimed at an innocent.
• Rome of opera houses, palaces and bandit-haunted ruins, richly drawn.
• Familiar faces from the original novel, from the Morrels to Vampa.

About This DodaBooks Edition

Thirty chapters of high melodrama, carefully typeset with a linked table of contents and navigation built for comfort on any screen, so the grand story continues without a stumble.