Le Comte de Monte-Cristo / The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure novel, serialized in the Journal des Débats from August 1844 to January 1846 and issued in book form as eighteen bound tomes (Baudry, then Pétion) between 1844 and 1846. It is a single complete story — the betrayal, imprisonment and revenge of Edmond Dantès — not a multi-book saga. The volume splits and foreign-language part editions grouped under this heading elsewhere (Tome I/II, Arabic and Kannada multi-part translations, etc.) are all printings of this one novel, not separate entries.