Count Monte Cristo. 2-book set

In Paris, a mysterious Count Monte Cristo appears. He sleeps with money and has a strange power over people. Some say that he is a noble Sicilian or the Maltese nobleman, others - that the count is rich, like a gold lived, and not only banks and exchanges obey him, but even hard labor and the palace of justice. So who is he really? And what secret goals pursues? The next volume of the illustrated collected works of Alexander Dumas includes three final parts of the immortal novel about betrayal, revenge and love “Count Monte Cristo”. The application to the book publishes the article by Dumas about the history of the creation of the novel, as well as the story of Jacques Peshe, which became the basis of the plot of Count Monte Cristo