Read The Count of Monte Cristo in Englishwith every sentence explained

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas was first published in 1844. In Passage you read the full text in English, marked intermediate and filed under historical fiction.

On the happiest day of his life, Edmond Dantès is arrested for a crime he knows nothing about.

Marseilles, 1815. At nineteen, Edmond brings the Pharaon home in place of her dead captain, with a promotion in sight and his beloved Mercédès ready to marry him. But his good fortune makes enemies: Danglars, the ship's jealous accountant, and Fernand, his rival for Mercédès. An anonymous letter denounces Edmond as a Bonapartist agent, and an ambitious deputy prosecutor, Villefort, has his own reasons for burying him alive in the Château d'If.

Years in a dark cell, and a remarkable fellow prisoner, turn the trusting sailor into someone else entirely. When a mysterious, fabulously rich Count of Monte Cristo later appears in Paris society, the men who ruined Dantès have no idea who is smiling at them.

Adapted again and again for film and television, Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo remains one of the most gripping adventure and revenge stories ever written.

Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in English. 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 English 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.