Read Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, tome 1 in Frenchwith every sentence explained

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, tome 1 by Alexandre Dumas was first published in 1844. In Passage you read the full text in the original French, marked intermediate and filed under historical fiction and thriller and suspense.

Not yet twenty, about to be captain, about to be married. Then an anonymous letter changes everything.

Marseille, February 1815. Edmond Dantès brings the ship Pharaon into port after her captain dies at sea, and the owner, Monsieur Morrel, promises him command. He has a devoted old father and a fiancée, the Catalan girl Mercédès. He also has enemies he never suspects: the purser Danglars, who envies his rise, and Fernand, who loves Mercédès.

A denunciation accusing him of Bonapartist plotting sends Dantès from his betrothal feast to the island fortress of the Château d'If, without trial. Alone in the dark, he begins to hear a faint scratching in the wall. This first volume follows him through prison and beyond, until a mysterious host calling himself Sinbad the Sailor welcomes a young Parisian traveller in Italy.

The Count of Monte Cristo, Volume 1 opens one of the most loved adventure stories ever written. This is where the revenge begins.

Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in French. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:

• a natural translation of that exact sentence,
• a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
• the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
• all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.

It's marked intermediate: comfortable once everyday French feels familiar, with the harder sentences one tap away. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.