New Count of Monte Cristo, or Mathias Shandor

The historical and adventure novel “Matias Sandor” Jules Verne devoted to the memory of Alexander Dumas-according to the author himself, the “brilliant storyteller”, whose “Count Monte Cristo” prompted him the plot of his new book. The main character of the novel, Count Matias Sandor, the Hungarian patriot and revolutionary, one of the organizers of the uprising designed to free Hungary from the Austrian yoke, becomes a victim of denunciation and is sentenced to death. And fifteen years later, a yacht of the mysterious Doctor Antectica arrives in the Dalmatic Port of Gravoz, whose most conflicting and incredible rumors have been going on about medical art and fabulous wealth of which for several years ...
In this publication for the first time in Russia, the novel is accompanied by illustrations of the Czech master of book graphics by Zdenek Burian (1905–1981) It was repeatedly noticed that not a single artist was able to so lively and believably resurrect in the drawings the unique atmosphere of Romanov Jules Verne