Publisher's Synopsis
The Count of Monte Cristo is an adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas completed in 1844. This is a bilingual French to English version of the original French with around 450 illustrations by eminent French artists of the time and augmented with sentence by sentence English "subtitles". This keeps the same meanings in each language in close proximity and is more analogous to subtitles in television than a traditional page or paragraph or book translation. This book is designed for enjoying in the original French, using the English as an instantly available source of help.The closest a book can get to installing an interpreter in your head!The illustrations give welcome breaks when reading in a second language.