Edmond Dantès by Edmund Flagg is an American dramatic work from the nineteenth century based on Alexandre Dumas’s The Count of Monte Cristo, reflecting the enormous popularity that Dumas’s story quickly gained in the United States as well as in Europe. It adapts the central figure and narrative of the French novel for an Anglophone stage audience.
Works like this testify to the immediate and lasting cultural impact of Dumas’s original story. This public-domain text is available as a free EPUB download for those interested in the theatrical and transatlantic life of a great French narrative.