Inside the story
Meet Edmond Dantès
Edmond Dantès is a young sailor from Marseilles, on the eve of his wedding and hopeful about his future. His happiness is disrupted when he is falsely accused and imprisoned, separating him from his fiancée and the life he expected to lead.
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At nineteen a tall, well-made young sailor with fine dark eyes, black hair, and an open, frank, handsome face; after his imprisonment and transformation he is lean and strikingly pale with a marble-like complexion, piercing dark eyes, and a cold, commanding, aristocratic bearing, often dressed in immaculate elegant black.
